To Kill a Mockingbird

Mass Market Paperback, 281 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 1982 by Warner Books.

ISBN:
978-0-446-31078-9
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OCLC Number:
992336995

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4 stars (4 reviews)

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience 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 always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. (back cover)

51 editions

A forward novel that we already moved past

3 stars

The book represents a point of view of a child during the 30's written by someone who was a child during the 30's, which brings valuable historical authenticity. It was published in the 60's and due to its immediate success it was a part of a shift in attitudes regarding the civil rights movements of the 70's. Reading the book with this context in mind is an interesting experience because to a contemporary mind, the 60's is in many ways more absurd than was the 30's to the author.

The novel own its own merit is greatly delivered, with enough character building and contextualization that by the time the main plot arrives my metropolitan millennial mind is decently acclimatized to a completely alien society and culture. The naive, progressive-household-raised, clean slate kid point of view gives the narrator plausible bewilderment when facing the pervasive racial injustice and hypocrisy the book …

reviewed To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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4 stars

Autobiografiko samarra omen da, idazlea neskatila zenekoa. Ingeles berezia dago dialogoetan, AEBetako hegoaldekoa.

Beltzen esklabotzaren amaierako gizartea erakusten du nobelak. Gaur egun oraindik badago arrazismoa, baina liburua argitaratu zenean funtzio sendagarria izan omen zuen liburu honek, aurrera egiten lagundu omen zuen.

Gomendatzen dut irakurtzea. Eta ondoren, 1962ko zuri-beltzeko film zaharra ikustea ere bai, liburuan bezalaxe guztia!

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Subjects

  • Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
  • Race relations -- Fiction
  • Trials (Rape) -- Fiction
  • Girls -- Fiction
  • Southern States -- Fiction