TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD : HARPER LEE

Name : TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD : 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.| "When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all but Jem who was four years my senior said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."| Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb Alabama during the Depression To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Sco| Country of Origin : India| Helpful (10)| Helpful (4)