You might also like

More about To Kill a Mockingbird

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 20 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntingdon College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird and has been awarded numerous literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

'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 1930s. 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.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: To Kill a Mockingbird
• Author: Harper Lee
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780099549482
• ISBN: 0099549484
• ID: 00184312
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Weight: 176 g
• Dimensions: 177 × 112 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. June 2010

Trending among others

---

---

---