Starting with Harry Potter’s great themes, Harry Potter & Imagination takes readers on a journey through the transformative power of those themes for both the individual and for culture by placing Rowling’s series in its literary, historical, and cultural contexts. Prinzi explores how fairy stories in general, and Harry Potter in specific, are not merely tales that are read to “escape from the real world,” but stories with the power to transform by teaching us to imagine better.

A professor of literature for over thirty years, Dr. James W. Thomas takes us on a tour back through the Potter books in order to enjoy them [even more and] in different ways upon subsequent readings.  Re-readers will be pleasantly surprised at what they may have missed in the books and at what secrets Rowling has [...]

The fastest-selling book in publication history, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was a critical success and is loved by fans around the world. In The Deathly Hallows Lectures, John Granger reveals the Potter finale’s brilliant details, themes and meanings. Even the most ardent of Harry Potter fans will be surprised by and delighted with the Hogwarts Professor’s explanations…