A Time to Kill

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Pearson Education, 1999 - Fiction - 89 pages
When a black man, Carl Lee Hailey, kills the two white men who raped his daughter, the town of Clanton, Mississippi is filled with anger and violence on all sides. This makes for a dangerous case for young lawyer Jack Brigance, but he'll do anything to defend his client and his own life.

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Contents

Revenge
6
Afterward
13
Chapter 4
21
Copyright

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A Time to Kill
John Grisham
Limited preview - 1992
A Time to Kill: A Jake Brigance Novel
John Grisham
Limited preview - 2004
A Time to Kill: A Novel
John Grisham
Limited preview - 2010
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About the author (1999)

John Grisham was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. He received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Mississippi State University. He was admitted to the bar in Mississippi in 1981 after receiving a law degree from the University of Mississippi, specializing in criminal law. While a lawyer in private practice in Southaven, Mississippi, Grisham served as a Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 until 1990. He left the law and politics to become a full-time author. His first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in 1989. His other novels include The Partner, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, The Summons, The King of Torts, Bleachers, The Last Juror, The Broker, Playing for Pizza, The Appeal, Calico Joe, The Racketeer, Gray Mountain, Rogue Lawyer, The Confession, The Litigators, The Whistler, Camino Island, The Rooster Bar, and the Theodore Boone series. Several of his novels were adapted into films including The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Chamber, A Painted House, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Time to Kill
Volume 1 of Jake Brigance, John Grisham
Level 5
Longman contemporary
Penguin Readers (Graded Readers) Series
Penguin readers level 5
Penguin readers
AuthorJohn Grisham
Compiled byChristopher Tribble
ContributorChristopher Tribble
PublisherPearson Education, 1999
ISBN0582364108, 9780582364103
Length89 pages
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Fiction / Legal
Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Southern
Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language
  
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