Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, now available as a beautifully designed collector's edition with sprayed and stenciled edges and gold foil.
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS'sThe Great American Read
"One of the most—if not the most—beloved of American novels." —The New Yorker
One of the most cherished stories of all time,To Kill a Mockingbirdhas been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than fifty million copies worldwide, 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, Scout Finch, as her father, Atticus—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward 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 and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice—but the weight of history will only tolerate so much.
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A first novel of such rare excellence that it will no doubt make a great many readers slow down to relish more fully its simple distinction. . . . A novel of strong contemporary national significance. -Chicago Tribune
All of the tactile brilliance and none of the precocity generally supposed to be standard swamp-warfare issues for Southern writers. . . . Novelist Lees prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life. -Time
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