Cover of To Kill A Mockingbird: To Kill a Mockingbird Translated into Latin for the First Time by Andrew Wilson

To Kill A Mockingbird: To Kill a Mockingbird Translated into Latin for the First Time by Andrew Wilson

by Harper Lee

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To Kill a Mockingbird #1320 pages211 editions2019HarperCollinsISBN 9781439550410

About this book

<p>Voted "America’s Best-Loved Novel" by The Great American Read series, PBS</p><p>Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, now translated into Latin.<br><br>“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”</p><p>A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement.</p><p>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 young Scout, as her father Atticus Finch, a crusading local lawyer, risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.</p><p>Now, this most beloved and acclaimed novel is retold in this beautiful Latin language edition, translated by Andrew Wilson.</p>

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
2019
Pages
320
ISBN
9781439550410
Language
en
Editions
211

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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