To Kill A Mockingbird
Vintage Classics Most Red Series
Published in 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-78487-597-8 (ISBN)
Description
MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics.
'It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.'
Summers for Scout in the Deep South are long and golden. Her story is one of innocence, and growing up. It is also about justice. When Scout's father Atticus Finch, a lawyer, agrees to defend a black man against an accusation by a white girl, he takes on the prejudice of the whole town. Through the case, Atticus teaches Scout that your imagination is not just for childhood games, but for understanding other people. Because you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
This evocative, funny, anti-racist novel has charmed and inspired generations. No matter if you didn't read it as a child. It is for everyone.
'It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.'
Summers for Scout in the Deep South are long and golden. Her story is one of innocence, and growing up. It is also about justice. When Scout's father Atticus Finch, a lawyer, agrees to defend a black man against an accusation by a white girl, he takes on the prejudice of the whole town. Through the case, Atticus teaches Scout that your imagination is not just for childhood games, but for understanding other people. Because you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
This evocative, funny, anti-racist novel has charmed and inspired generations. No matter if you didn't read it as a child. It is for everyone.
Reviews / Votes
Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable * Truman Capote * There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition * Sunday Times * Her book is lifted...into the rare company of those that linger in the memory... * Bookman *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 129 mm
Weight
276 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78487-597-8 (9781784875978)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died on 19 February 2016.