To kill a mockingbird
A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, Scout, as her father, Atticus Finch -- a crusading local lawyer-- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
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- ISBN: 9780060935467 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780062420701
- Physical Description 323 p. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics , 2002, c1960.
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General Note: | Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott; London: Heinemann, 1960. "50th anniversary, celebrate an American classic."--Cover. |
Awards Note: | Pulitzer Prize winner. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father--a crusading local lawyer--risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.