To Kill a Mockingbird (Vintage Future Classics)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Vintage Future Classics)

by HarperLee (Author)

Synopsis

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: Limited edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Sep 2005

ISBN 10: 0099496895
ISBN 13: 9780099496892

Media Reviews
* 'No one ever forgets this book' - Independent * 'Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable' - Truman Capote * Her book is lifted...into the rare company of those that linger in the memory' - Bookman
Author Bio
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, a village that is still her home. She attended local schools and the University of Alabama. Before she started writing, she lived in New York and worked in the reservations department of an international airline. She has been awarded the Pulitzer prize, two honorary degrees and various other literary and library awards. Her chief interests apart from writing are nineteenth-century literature and eighteenth-century music, watching politicians and cats, travelling and being alone.