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Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal (Edición limitada con cantos pintados) / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Limited Edition Sprayed Edges)
288 pages, Hardcover
Published November 4, 2025
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J.K. Rowling
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Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.
Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.
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December 10, 2025
Leí este libro cuando tenía 11 años, la misma edad que Harry Potter. Ahora, con 38, decidí releer toda la saga. Aunque ya no apoyo a la autora, elegí separar los libros de sus creencias personales y concentrarme únicamente en la historia.
Leerlo como adulto ha sido una experiencia completamente distinta. Algunos personajes mayores se sienten un poco caricaturescos, aunque entiendo que es un libro dirigido a un público infantil. Aun así, tengo curiosidad por ver si esa caracterización madura con los siguientes tomos. Sospecho que la autora también fue creciendo en su estilo a lo largo de la serie.
La historia sigue siendo encantadora, ligera y muy envolvente. En ciertos momentos incluso sentí que las películas resolvieron mejor algunas escenas. Aun así, fue muy entretenido redescubrir partes que había olvidado o que no recordaba en absoluto, especialmente aquellas que no aparecen en las películas.
En general, es un libro maravilloso para leer con tus hijos si los tienes, o para revisitar si quieres reconectar con tu infancia o simplemente disfrutar el regresar, aunque sea por un momento, a esos días de la niñez.
Leerlo como adulto ha sido una experiencia completamente distinta. Algunos personajes mayores se sienten un poco caricaturescos, aunque entiendo que es un libro dirigido a un público infantil. Aun así, tengo curiosidad por ver si esa caracterización madura con los siguientes tomos. Sospecho que la autora también fue creciendo en su estilo a lo largo de la serie.
La historia sigue siendo encantadora, ligera y muy envolvente. En ciertos momentos incluso sentí que las películas resolvieron mejor algunas escenas. Aun así, fue muy entretenido redescubrir partes que había olvidado o que no recordaba en absoluto, especialmente aquellas que no aparecen en las películas.
En general, es un libro maravilloso para leer con tus hijos si los tienes, o para revisitar si quieres reconectar con tu infancia o simplemente disfrutar el regresar, aunque sea por un momento, a esos días de la niñez.
October 9, 2025
Deseaba leer la saga desde pequeña y tenía muchas expectativas. Al haber visto las películas tantas veces (incluso saberme algunos diálogos), leer el libro ha sido una mezcla de nostalgia y ligera decepción.
Me ha gustado redescubrir la historia desde su origen; sin embargo, hay muchos detalles y escenas que ocurren de forma diferente, y a veces me costaba no compararlo con el cine.
Aun así, tiene una magia especial que te hace sonreír incluso sabiendo lo que viene después. En muchos momentos, me volví a sentir en la piel de aquella niña que descubría el mundo mágico por primera vez.
Me ha gustado redescubrir la historia desde su origen; sin embargo, hay muchos detalles y escenas que ocurren de forma diferente, y a veces me costaba no compararlo con el cine.
Aun así, tiene una magia especial que te hace sonreír incluso sabiendo lo que viene después. En muchos momentos, me volví a sentir en la piel de aquella niña que descubría el mundo mágico por primera vez.
January 16, 2026
4,5/5⭐
volví a leérmelo porque amo esta Saga
volví a leérmelo porque amo esta Saga
December 17, 2025
Wow! Después de 25 años por fin lo leí, en definitiva es mil veces mejor que las películas, cuantos detalles había escondidos, cuanta magia por descubrir, en definitiva para mí este libro es mucho mejor que la película, ¿y la calidad del libro de esta edición? En una palabra, magnífico!!!!
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