To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper, 1926-2015
Book
Review: "'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 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." -- Back cover.
Main title:
To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee.
Author:
Lee, Harper, 1926-, author
Work:
Edition:
50th anniversary ed.
Imprint:
London : Arrow Books, 2015.©1960.
Collation:
1 volume ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
First published in UK in 1960 by William Heinemann
Awards:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
ISBN:
9781784752637 (pbk)1784752630 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
Added title:
Subject:
Finch, Atticus (Fictitious character) -- FictionFinch, Scout (Fictitious character) -- FictionAfrican Americans -- Southern States -- FictionFathers and daughters -- FictionFathers and daughters -- Southern States -- FictionGirls -- Southern States -- FictionLawyers -- Southern States -- FictionRace relations -- FictionRacism -- United States -- History -- FictionTrials (Rape) -- Southern States -- FictionAlabama -- FictionSouthern States -- Race relations -- FictionClassicsComing-of-age fictionDomestic fictionHistorical fictionLegal fiction (Literature)
BRN:
48764