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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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ISBN13: 9780446310789
ISBN10: 0446310786
Condition: Standard
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We didn't read this in high school. The assigned book was The Scarlet Letter, which was already a favorite of mine. Recently, however, I decided that I'd ignored To Kill a Mockingbird for too long. If you haven't read it, or if it's been awhile since you last played with Scout, Jem, and Dill, then I urge you to tag along. I read it slowly, as I knew I'd never read it again for the first time. There are no big operatic moments and yet I found myself weeping several times. Its power lies just beneath its deceptively simple sentences. It may be an almost-perfect book.
Recommended by Christopher, Powell's City of Books

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One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.

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If you're going to write only one novel, this is the novel to write! To say that To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the great American novels doesn't do it justice. If you've never read it, read it. If you read it in high school, read it again! I guarantee that what you take from it as an adult will be even better and more meaningful than what you took from it the first time around. Brilliant!
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Synopsis:

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.<P>Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior-to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 15 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

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ckieloch, January 1, 2012 (view all comments by ckieloch)
Sadly, I finally read this book at age 45 right after finishing a Master's Degree in Literature and Writing. It is what everyone said it is. Fabulous. Scout, and the men in her life were enchanting. The story is timeless. Ms. Lee was courageous to write this book and I hope that her work helped some folks to leave behind crippling attitudes and unfair bias.
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Jimmy D, January 1, 2012 (view all comments by Jimmy D)
A timeless American classic about southern life in the 30's as seen through the eyes of a child.
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bookloverxxv, May 8, 2011 (view all comments by bookloverxxv)
Read it for a school project and fell in love from the first page. I am Scout! Her fearless explorations of her surrounding world give us insights into the age she lived in, the good and the bad. A book about the wrongness of prejudice and the difference one good man can make. The movie is excellent too, Gregory Peck the perfect choice for Atticus. Highly recommended.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780446310789
Author:
Lee, Harper
Publisher:
Warner Books
Location:
New York, N.Y. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Girls
Subject:
Prejudices
Subject:
Race relations
Subject:
Southern states
Subject:
Fathers and daughters
Subject:
Trials
Subject:
Alabama
Subject:
Legal stories
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
Edition Number:
Warner Books ed.
Edition Description:
1st Perennial classics ed.
Series Volume:
[3]
Publication Date:
December 1982
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
6.60x4.10x1.10 in. .40 lbs.

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We didn't read this in high school. The assigned book was The Scarlet Letter, which was already a favorite of mine. Recently, however, I decided that I'd ignored To Kill a Mockingbird for too long. If you haven't read it, or if it's been awhile since you last played with Scout, Jem, and Dill, then I urge you to tag along. I read it slowly, as I knew I'd never read it again for the first time. There are no big operatic moments and yet I found myself weeping several times. Its power lies just beneath its deceptively simple sentences. It may be an almost-perfect book.

"Synopsis" by , The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.<P>Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior-to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 15 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
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