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...joke, it turns out, was on the chucklers. In January, a British panel chose Beowulf for the Whitbread Award as the best book of 1999, with J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban running a close second. But these judges, of course, did not suddenly come to their senses about the merits of a manuscript composed sometime late in the first millennium. They gave their prize--and an instant spot at the top of British best-seller lists--to a new verse translation of Beowulf by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize...
...HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by J.K. Rowling. The third installment of this phenomenally popular series takes its now teenage hero through another year of his education in the ways of wizardry. Once again, Harry must face a mortal threat, but not before he and his friends get into lively boarding-school scrapes. Children can't get enough of Harry, and neither can their parents...
...Scottish Rowling has now written three books, The Chamber of Secrets and The Prisoner of Azkaban in addition to her first, which are currently the top three books on The New York Times Bestseller List. The Sorcerer's Stone has been on that list for the past 50 weeks...
Since it was released on Oct. 5, the Barnes and Noble branch has sold 339 copies of The Sorcerer's Stone in paperback. 284 copies of the hardcover Prisoner of Azkaban sold in the same period...
...first book had lots of magic and crazy creatures, but by the third book...an adult could really read into it; there were deeper themes and social commentary. The Prisoner of Azkaban gets away from the 'fluffy fluffy' cool magical stuff, and becomes more like literature. There's a lot of allegory underneath...