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Lana A. Whited. The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004.
Elizabeth E. Heilman. Critical perspectives on Harry Potter. New York: Routledge, 2008.
David Baggett, Shawn Klein, William Irwin. Harry Potter and philosophy: if Aristotle ran Hogwarts. Peru: Open Court Publishing, 2004.
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Roni Natov, "Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary" in The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2001), pp. 310-327.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Essays and Related Content
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- Character List
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- Major Themes
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- Summary and Analysis of Chapter 1
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 2 and 3
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 4 and 5
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 6 and 7
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 8 and 9
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 10 and 11
- Summary and Analysis of Chapter 12 and 13
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 14 and 15
- Summary and Analysis of Chapter 16 and 17
- The Seven Challenges as Rowling's Rite of Passage
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