To Kill A Mockingbird: 60th Anniversary Edition

by Harper Lee

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'

Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy.

• ISBN10: 0434020486
• ISBN13: 9780434020485
• Publish Date: 24 June 2010 (first published 11 July 1960)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Cornerstone
• Imprint: William Heinemann Ltd
• Edition: Special edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

I know, I know. It's a classic. I can appreciate classics but this book was just downright depressing.

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If I was inclined to really long shelf names this would be on the books-i-read-in-highschool-and-didn't-really-enjoy shelf.

I don't remember much except that I didn't care for this book much. My two star rating is specifically designed for just such a book: well written, classic, popular that I just don't like reading.