To Kill A Mockingbird
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Feb '04
Should be back in stock very soon
One of the world's best-loved books
'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'
Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl.
In 1930’s Alabama, Scout Finch watches her father stand up for justice, in a town steeped in prejudice.
Atticus Finch tells his children that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. That lesson becomes the moral centre of Harper Lee’s classic novel as Atticus defends a black man charged with attacking a white girl.
Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores race, class, childhood and conscience in the Deep South of the 1930s. Around them is a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy, and at the centre stands Atticus, whose quiet struggle for justice makes him one of literature’s enduring figures of moral courage.
To Kill A Mockingbird is a modern American classic, a Southern coming-of-age novel and a powerful story about racial injustice, family and integrity.
This edition of one of the world’s best-loved books features the original text.
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World **
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
There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition * Sunday Times *
It would be difficult to argue that Harper Lee's classic isn't one of the most - if not the most - beloved of American novels * New Yorker *
The enduring appeal of Mockingbird lies not only int he plot or characters; the book is a mirror, a source of endless and revelatory conversation about who we are and have been as a country -- Washington Post
The names Scout and Atticus - and, perhaps above all, the name Harper - reflect a respect not just for the arc of history, but for the hope that it does indeed bend toward justice -- Atlantic
A first novel of such rare excellence * Chicago Tribune *
Novels like To Kill a Mockingbird enlarge the heart and inspire the mind. They have the power uplift readers and enrich them - no matter where those readers live or how they worship or the color of their skin * Boston Globe *
The rare classic that speaks to all ages about the less triumphant aspects of American history * Time *
A seminal American story, a touchstone of radical tolerance .. The book is a marvel, brilliantly structured, wonderfully told in the voice of Scout Finch, a stand-in for its tomboyish author as a child ... It's a book determined to make young readers feel like grownups ... and grownups feel like children * USA Today *
ISBN: 9780099466734
Dimensions: 197mm x 127mm x 22mm
Weight: 214g
320 pages