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...popular consensus was that “Goblet of Fire” had upped the stakes for complexity in the series. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar published an article in The New York Times in late 2001 that contained traces of skepticism, calling the Harry Potter series “children’s ‘classics’ for our time,” if not “classics for all time...
Even as the country was devouring the “Harry Potter” novels, critics like Safire and Harold Bloom, the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, were trying to get people to spit them out. Safire admits in his essay that he enjoys “Harry Potter,” just as he enjoys “short films, featuring anthropomorphic porcine cartoon characters.” Bloom ends his critique with the backhanded “hope that my discontent is not merely a highbrow snobbery, or a nostalgia for a more literate fantasy to beguile...
...Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” debuted in England in June 1997 and generated immediate buzz. According to a 1997 review of the novel in British newspaper The Guardian, author J.K. Rowling sold her manuscript to her UK publisher Bloomsbury for ?100,000, and less than a month later, she had attracted movie offers from two Hollywood studios...
Scholastic Press released the book to U.S. audiences in September 1998 under the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” and three months later it made its first of 79 appearances on The New York Times fiction bestseller list. In 2000, The New York Times created a special bestseller list for children’s books after publishers complained that the Harry Potter series kept other, deserving adult books off the list...
When it announced the changed, the paper itself cited the expected popularity of the series’ fourth book, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” which debuted that summer...