To Kill a Mockingbird Hardback - 1999
by Harper Lee
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Review summary
Across these reviews, readers largely praised Harper Lee’s novel for its vivid child’s?eye narration, memorable characters—especially Atticus Finch—and an unflinching look at small?town racism that still feels contemporary. Many revisited it after school and found more nuance, with several recommending the Sissy Spacek audiobook. Critiques focused on a slow, meandering opening, an uneven structure between the Boo Radley thread and the trial, a didactic streak, and the sidelining of Black characters within a white-centered lens. Despite dissenting views that found it dull or overrated, most considered it a significant, affecting read worth recommending.
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It is estimated that only 5,000 copies of To Kill a Mockingbird were published in the first printing, and two states of the book were printed. The order of the states are heavily disputed, with one of the states including a review by Shirley Ann Grau and Phyllis McGinley, and the other state featuring a review by Jonathan Daniels. There was not a printing statement in the first printing, but the price tag of $3.95 can be found on the lower corner of the front flap of the dust jacket. The first edition also has a quote from Truman Capote reading “Someone rare has written this very fine first novel: a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable.”--Truman Capote.
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- Title To Kill a Mockingbird
- Author Harper Lee
- Binding Hardback
- Edition 40th Anniversary
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Publication date 1999
- ISBN 9780060194994 / 0060194995
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.24 x 5.65 x 1.13 in (20.93 x 14.35 x 2.87 cm)
- Reading level 790
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Legal stories
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95191280
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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