To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

• Publish Date: 1960 (first published 11 July 1960)
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• Imprint: Heinemann
• Edition: First UK Edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 296
• 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.