To Kill a Mockingbird

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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of sense of right and wrong that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an

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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of sense of right and wrong 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.

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 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee at all times considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is considered a masterpiece of American literature.

“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow…. When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we once in a while discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.”

Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, All through the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus–three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.

Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout’s first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, at the same time as away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a under the influence of alcohol and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children’s consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. All through the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well–in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout’s hard-won understanding that the general public are essentially kind “when you in point of fact see them.” By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread continuously. –Alix Wilber

Author

Harper Lee

Binding

Mass Market Paperback

Brand

Grand Central Publishing

CatalogNumberList

TM-0446310786, POTM-0446310786, FPS-318310

Color

Other

EAN

9780446310789

EANList

9780446310789

ISBN

0446310786

ItemDimensions

98, hundredths-inches, 669, hundredths-inches, 40, hundredths-pounds, 413, hundredths-inches

Label

Grand Central Publishing

Languages

English, Published, English, Original Language, English, Unknown

Manufacturer

Grand Central Publishing

MPN

9780446310789

NumberOfItems

1

NumberOfPages

384

PackageDimensions

90, hundredths-inches, 650, hundredths-inches, 45, hundredths-pounds, 340, hundredths-inches

PackageQuantity

1

PartNumber

9780446310789

ProductGroup

Book

ProductTypeName

ABIS_BOOK

PublicationDate

1988-10-11

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Studio

Grand Central Publishing

UPC

070993006990

UPCList

070993006990

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