Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling audiobook

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

By J. K. Rowling
Produced by Listening Library
Read by Jim Dale

Blackstone Publishing, Listening Library (Audio), Penguin Random House 9780439064873

The Harry Potter Series: Book 2

Unabridged

Format: Library CD (In Stock)
  • 2 Formats: CD
  • 2 Formats: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9780807281949

  • ISBN: 9780807281949

Runtime: 9.60 Hours
Category: Fiction/Fantasy
Audience: Children (8–12)
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A #1 New York Times bestseller

Shortlisted for the 1999 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize

The Dursleys were so mean that hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.

But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone--or something--starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself?

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

Surely the vilest household in children's literature since the family Roald Dahl created for Matilda.  Harry himself is the perfect confused and unassuming hero. —School Library Journal, starred review
“Dale has an unerring sense of character and gives each person—or should it be each wizard?—and unique and splendid voice…The only thing that would be better than reading a Potter book at this point would be listening to it.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
“This deliciously suspenseful novel is every bit as gripping, imaginative, and creepy as the first…Once again, Rowling writes with a combination of wit, whimsy, and a touch of the macabre that will leave readers young and old desperate for the next installment.” —Amazon.com, editorial review
“The Potter tales sound wonderful read aloud, and adapt to the audiobook format extremely well. Broadway actor Jim Dale’s impressive vocal range gives each character in the book its own distinctive voice—a considerable task, given the pantheon of witches, warlocks, ghosts, ghouls, dwarves, and elves that Harry encounters in his second outing.” —Amazon.com, editorial audiobook review
“The mystery, zany humor, sense of a traditional British school, student rivalry, and eccentric faculty, all surrounded by the magical foundation so necessary in good fantasy, are as expertly crafted here as in the first book.” —Booklist
“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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Author

Author Bio: J. K. Rowling

Author Bio: J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter novels, which have sold more than 450 million copies worldwide in more than two hundred territories and have been translated into seventy-four languages and made into eight blockbuster films. She has also written two small volumes, which appear as the titles of Harry’s schoolbooks within the novels: Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Quidditch through the Ages. Her Tales of Beedle the Bard quickly became the fastest selling book of 2008. As well as an OBE for services to children’s literature, Rowling is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, the French Legion of Honor, and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, and she has been a commencement speaker at Harvard University. She supports a wide number of causes through her charitable trust Volant and is the founder of Lumos, a charity working to transform the lives of disadvantaged children.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD
Category: Fiction/Fantasy
Runtime: 9.60
Audience: Children (8–12)
Language: English

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