To Kill a Mockingbird [Mass Market Paperback]

‘A touching book; and so funny, so likeable’ --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

‘Her book is lifted…into the rare company of those that linger in the memory...' --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

‘There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature...' --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

The bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning classic. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'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 thirties. 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- (20030909) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'No one ever forgets this book' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

'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.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, a village that is still her home. She attended local schools and the University of Alabama. Before she started writing, she lived in New York and worked in the reservations department of an international airline. She has been awarded the Pulitzer prize, two honorary degrees and various other literary and library awards. Her chief interests apart from writing are nineteenth-century literature and eighteenth-century music, watching politicians and cats, travelling and being alone. (20030909) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.