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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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To Kill a Mockingbird #1336 pages2006Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsISBN 9780061120084

About this book

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 viruletn prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a youn girl, as her father--a crusading local lawyer--risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. (front flap)

Publication Details

Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published
2006
Pages
336
ISBN
9780061120084
Language
en

About Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist. She wrote the 1960 novel *To Kill a Mockingbird* that won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. Lee received numerous accolades and honorary degrees, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 which was awarded for her contribution to literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book *In Cold Blood* (1966). Capote was the basis for the character Dill Harris in *To Kill a Mockingbird.*

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