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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780446310789 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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.
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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BellaEzrebetFang, June 18, 2008 (view all comments by BellaEzrebetFang)
Defintely an amazing classic! Absoloutely loved it!
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Effie, April 30, 2007 (view all comments by Effie)
A classic that always needs to be revisited.
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isaac_k, April 24, 2007 (view all comments by isaac_k)
T
o Kill a Mockingbird was, in short, a wonderful tale. Told through the eyes of 6/7/8 year-old Jean Louise Finch, it delves deep into: Small-town life, racism, child’s play, the strangeness of how women act around one another, kindness, and human nature, among other things. When Scout’s father, Atticus, quietly defies the town by defending a black man, Scout and her brother Jem are exposed to the new, ugly world that adults live in.
I started reading To Kill a Mockingbird because I knew it was a classic for some reason. However, most of the non-Mark Twain “Classics” I have read turned out to be rather dry and full of the type of vernacular you might hear when somebody’s trying to act smart at a fancy dinner party. I encountered this: “If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
This book is amazing; in fact, amazing doesn’t seem to cut it. It’s dramatic; full of dry humor and deep emotions; it’s entertaining, which is what a book should be all about. For these reasons, I could not find any reviews with anything bad to say about it, even from people that sounded (at least online) like they needed to read a lot more books. It’s this kind of book that makes me want to read more; it’s this kind of book that also makes you want to go out and do something.
The most important thing that this writer says is not to judge people by your preconceived judgments or other people’s judgments, preconceived or not. This is displayed in the book in two ways: Tom Robinson’s rape case and Boo Radley (I have a feeling that the reason for the book starting when it did is to build up Boo’s character). Both these men are quite different than what they seem.
I learned something from this book, too: that most times the best way to communicate with people is to confront them with common sense and innocence, at Atticus said, “So it took ‘em an eight-year-old to bring ‘em to their senses, did it? Maybe we need a police force of children.”
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780446310789
- Author:
- 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
- Copyright:
- 1960
- 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:
- 7.00x4.14x.77 in. .31 lbs.
