《Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets》（英文版）作者：J.K. Rowling 【TXT】

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　　中文版本请见：哈利·波特与密室

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When most people hear 'large-print book,' they immediately think senior citizen. But large-print editions of popular children's books -- from the powerhouse Harry Potter series to timeless classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- are now making their way onto the shelves of the Children's Department at the Canton Library. . . . Although large-print editions are targeted to the visually-impaired or dyslexic child, they can also be used by standard-vision readers. So Kershner [Children's librarian at the Canton Public Library] has decided against creating a special section in the Children's Department (as exists in the Adult Department) opting instead to intersperse large-print books on the shelves with the regular print versions of the same titles.

《哈利·波特与密室》，是英国女作家J.K.罗琳创作的哈利·波特系列小说的第2部。后来被改编为同名电影和同名游戏。火爆西方世界的第一畅销书《哈利·波特与密室》不仅让小朋友们爱不释手，就连大人们也为之如痴如醉。

内容简介

In one of the most hotly anticipated sequels in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left with Harry's second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl's bathroom, an outrageously conceited professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, and a mysterious force that turns Hogwarts students to stone.

　　《哈利·波特与密室》讲述了哈利·波特在霍格袄茨魔法学校学习一年之后，暑假开始了。他在姨夫姨妈家熬过痛苦的假期。正当他准备打点行装去学校时，小精灵多比前来发出警告：如果哈利返回霍格袄茨，灾难将会临头。
　　但哈利义无返顾地回到了霍格袄茨，新来的吉罗德?洛哈特教授装腔作势，让他作呕；游荡在女生与洗市里的幽灵“哭泣的桃金娘”搅得他不得安宁；低年级的小女生金妮对他投来关切目光常令他尴尬不已；小男生科林?克里维“追星”式的跟踪又经常使他落荒而逃。
　　但是，这一切不仅仅是灾难的序曲。正如多比所预言的，哈利遭受了重重磨难，经历了种种危险，难解之迷又使他熬费苦心：霍格袄茨的学生接而连三地变成了石头。这一切是品德败坏的学生德拉科·马尔福精心策划的杰作？还是忠厚善良的海格无心铸成的大错？或者另有人将在霍格袄茨制造更大的阴谋？这一切又是否与传说中的密室有关？哈利决心揭开谜底……

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。
目录
Contents
One            The Worst Birthday
Two            Dobby's Warning
Three         The Burrow
Four           At Flourish and Blotts
Five            The Whomping Willow
Six              Gilderoy Lockhart
Seven        Mudbloods and Murmurs
Eight          The Deathday Parry
Nine          The Writing on the Wall
Ten            The Rogue Bludger
Eleven       The Dueling Club
Twelve       The Polyjuice Pltion
Thirteen     The Very Secret Diary
Fourteen    Cornelius Fudge
Fifteen        Aragog
Sisteen      The Chamber of Secret
Seventeen The Heir of Slytherin
Eighteen     Dobby's Reward

媒体评论
"Grade 3-8-Fans of the phenomenally popular Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Scholastic, 1998) won't be disappointed when they rejoin Harry, now on break after finishing his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Reluctantly spending the summer with the Dursleys, his mean relatives who fear and detest magic, Harry is soon whisked away by his friends Ron, Fred, and George Weasley, who appear at his window in a flying Ford Anglia to take him away to enjoy the rest of the holidays with their very wizardly family. Things don't go as well, though, when the school term begins. Someone, or something, is (literally) petrifying Hogwarts' residents one by one and leaving threatening messages referring to a Chamber of Secrets and an heir of Slytherin. Somehow, Harry is often around when the attacks happen and he is soon suspected of being the perpetrator. The climax has Harry looking very much like Indiana Jones, battling a giant serpent in the depths of the awesome and terrible Chamber of Secrets. Along with most of the teachers and students introduced in the previous book, Draco Malfoy has returned for his second year and is more despicable than ever. The novel is marked throughout by the same sly and sophisticated humor found in the first book, along with inventive, new, matter-of-fact uses of magic that will once again have readers longing to emulate Harry and his wizard friends."
--School Library Journal

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