To Kill a Mockingbird (50 Anniversary Edition)

by Harper Lee

Overview

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred

One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061980268
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	05/11/2010
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	465
Sales rank:	45,710
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)
Lexile:	790L (what's this?)

About the Author

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, which became a phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller when it was published in July 2015. Ms. Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honors. She died on February 19, 2016.

Hometown:

Monroeville, Alabama

Date of Birth:

April 28, 1926

Date of Death:

February 19, 2016

Place of Birth:

Monroeville, Alabama

Place of Death:

Monroeville, Alabama

Editorial Reviews

"Remarkable triumph . . . Miss Lee writes with a wry compassion that makes her novel soar."

Life magazine

"A novel of great sweetness, humor, compassion, and of mystery carefully sustained."

Harper's Magazine

"Miss Lee wonderfully builds the tranquil atmosphere of her Southern town, and as adroitly causes it to erupt a shocking lava of emotions."

San Francisco Examiner

"Skilled, unpretentious and tototally ingenuous . . . tough, melodramatic, acute, funny."

The New Yorker

"Marvelous . . . Miss Lee's original characters are people to cherish in this winning first novel."

The New York Times

Remarkable triumph . . . Miss Lee writes with a wry compassion that makes her novel soar.

Life Magazine

"Marvelous . . . Miss Lee's original characters are people to cherish in this winning first novel."—The New York Times

"Remarkable triumph . . . Miss Lee writes with a wry compassion that makes her novel soar."—Life magazine

"Miss Lee wonderfully builds the tranquil atmosphere of her Southern town, and as adroitly causes it to erupt a shocking lava of emotions."—San Francisco Examiner

"Skilled, unpretentious and tototally ingenuous . . . tough, melodramatic, acute, funny."—The New Yorker

"A novel of great sweetness, humor, compassion, and of mystery carefully sustained."—Harper's Magazine

From the Publisher

08/01/2014
This 50th-anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is narrated by Sissy Spacek.

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