《Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban》（英文版）作者：J.K. Rowling 【TXT】

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             中文版参看《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》
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For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who's forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.

As it turns out, Harry isn't punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he's after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry's very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works.

内容简介
Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn't if they live with the horrible Dursley?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school……

　　《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》是“哈利·波特”系列的第三部。哈利·波特在霍格沃茨魔法学校已经度过了不平凡的两年，而且早已听说魔法世界中有一座守备森严的阿兹卡班监狱，里面关押着一个臭名昭著的囚徒，名字叫小天狼星布莱克。传言布莱克是“黑魔法”高手伏地魔——杀害哈利父母的凶手——的忠实信徒，曾经用一句魔咒接连结束了十三条性命。不幸的是，布莱克逃出了阿兹卡班，一心追寻哈利。布莱克在睡梦中仍然呓语不休：“他在霍格沃茨……他在霍格沃茨。”哈利·波特虽然身在魔法学校的城堡内，既有朋友的赤诚帮助，也有老师的悉心呵护，但校园内危机四伏，哈利的生命时时受到威胁。一天，布莱克终于站到了哈利的面前……
作者简介
J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold more than 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories, translated into 74 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films.
　　J.K. 罗琳为英国女作家，是风靡全球的《哈利·波特》系列丛书的作者. 共为七册《哈利·波特》小说在全球范围售出4.5亿册，被改编成8部电影，译成74种语言。罗琳凭着哈利·波特的魔力荣登福布斯的10亿富翁排行榜。罗琳也是“10亿富豪俱乐部”中唯一的英国女性、唯一的作家，是世界上白手起家打入其中的仅有的5名女性之一，也是最年轻的成员之一。

媒体评论
"In this third installment in the projected seven-volume series, Sirius Black, imprisoned for killing 13 people with one curse, escapes from Azkaban. As he heads for Hogwarts, the chilling Dementors who trail him quickly descend upon the school. "Each successive volume expands upon its predecessor with dizzyingly well-planned plots and inventive surprises," said PW in a Best Books of 2001 citation. Ages 8-up."
--Publishers Weekly

"...the heartiest and best of children's literature."
--The New York Times Book Review, Gregory Maguire