Arrow's 50th anniversary edition of the bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning classic.

Informationen zum Autor Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird , originally published in 1960; and Go Set a Watchman , published in July 2015. Ms Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died in 2016. Klappentext The perennially beloved and treacly account of growing up in a small Southern town during the Depression....To read the novel is! for most! an exercise in wish-fulfillment and self-congratulation! a chance to consider thorny issues of race and prejudice from a safe distance and with the comfortable certainty that the reader would never harbor the racist attitudes espoused by the lowlifes in the novel. Zusammenfassung ___'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 falsely charged with the rape of a white girl.

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Arrow's 50th anniversary edition of the bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning classic.

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Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, originally published in 1960; and Go Set a Watchman, published in July 2015. Ms Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died in 2016.

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New, 50th anniversary paperback edition of the classic anti-racist novel from 1960. With a brand new jacket image, it will bring the book to a whole new audience. The 1962 adaptation of the novel starring Gregory Peck won 3 Oscars and 3 Golden Globes. A new hardback edition is also available this month. 'No one ever forgets this book' )Independent(

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___'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 falsely charged with the rape of a white girl.