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To Kill a Mockingbird

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HarperCollins, May 23, 2006 - Fiction - 336 pages

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred

One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father -- a crusading local lawyer -- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

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User Review  - Jim - Goodreads

Briefly, it's an excellent read about kids growing up & facing prejudice, along with other trials of life, morals, & death. While the movie with Gregory Peck was excellent, I still prefer the book. If ... Read full review

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User Review  - Steve aka Sckenda - Goodreads

I met Atticus Finch the year my father died. My father was kind, soft-spoken, and courteous. Like Atticus, “he did not do the things our schoolmates' fathers did: he never went hunting, he did not ... Read full review

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About the author (2006)

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Pulitzer Prize, and many other accolades.

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