The release of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" spawned a frenzy around the world. The combined first printing in North America and the United Kingdom exceeded 4.5 million copies - still a publishing record. The Barnes & Noble in Minnesota's Mall of America transformed a section into "Potter Town" and other stores booked magicians and sponsored slumber parties. on July 8, 2000, interest had risen to such levels that bookstores around the world were offering midnight parties to welcome customers. By the debut of the fourth book, "Goblet of Fire," at 12:01 a.m. The first three Harry Potter books were released in the United States in 19. However, eager readers who gobbled up "Goblet" will probably be unfazed by another 60,000 words - indeed, it's probably a bonus. At least it will be in Britain, where "Goblet of Fire" ran 636 pages.) Michener's "Hawaii," for example, was a brain-fogging, wrist-breaking 500,000 words.
(The publishers apparently will reduce the size of the type the new book is going to be 768 pages, they say. Given that "Goblet" clocked in at 752 pages in its American edition, this means that Book 5 is approaching James Michener - or Dickens - lengths. The new book is 38 chapters and 255,000 words, more than one-third longer than the fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," the publishers said in a press release. I am going to tell you everything." An even longer work "It is time," he said, "for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Later in the novel, the statement said, Rowling writes:ĭumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. The only person left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flowerbed outside No. The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. " has written a brilliant and utterly compelling new adventure," said Bloomsbury Chief Executive Nigel Newton and Scholastic President Barbara Marcus in a joint statement. Rowling's Harry Potter series, will be released, its publishers announced Wednesday. That's the day "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the long-awaited fifth volume in J.K. (CNN) - Mark your calendars: Saturday, June 21, 2003.
Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln: 272 "Julius Caesar," William Shakespeare: 19,000 "Treasure Island," Robert Louis Stevenson: 68,000 "Wuthering Heights," Emily Bronte: 116,000 "David Copperfield," Charles Dickens: 357,000 Here are the lengths of other literary works:
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" will clock in at 255,000 words, according to its publishers.
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