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To Kill a Mockingbird Mass market paperback - 1988
by Harper Lee
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- Title To Kill a Mockingbird
- Author Harper Lee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 50th Anniversary Edition
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York
- Publication date 1988-10-11
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0446310786-4-18815055
- ISBN 9780446310789 / 0446310786
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 in (17.02 x 10.41 x 2.79 cm)
- Size 6x4x1
- Reading level 790
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Legal stories
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002514617
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 20
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Summary
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
Reader reviews for To Kill a Mockingbird
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.
Readers say this book is:
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“I never deliberately learned to read……..Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the line above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills To Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Day - anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.†To Kill a Mockingbird is the first published novel by American author, Harper Lee. Almost-nine-year-old Scout (Jean Louise) Finch had never set eyes on her reclusive neighbour, Boo (Arthur) Radley, until the night of Halloween, 1935. To Scout, her almost-thirteen-year-old brother, Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch) and their summer vacation friend, Dill (Charles Parker Harris), Boo Radley was an almost mythical creature who remained hidden in the Radley house and was the subject of much childhood speculation. Their fascination was frowned upon by their father, Atticus, a lawyer elected to the state legislature. When Atticus took on the defence of a black man, he warned his children that some unpleasantness could well be the result. This was, after all, Alabama, and attitudes to race and class were strongly prejudiced, but what happened after the verdict was beyond anyone’s expectations. Lee’s telling of events from Scout’s point of view gives the reader a unique perspective that includes much humour as Scout, Jem and Dill learn life’s lessons. The Finch’s black housekeeper, Calpurnia, their neighbour, Miss Maudie Atkinson, their Aunt Alexandra, Atticus, and even Jem are given words of wisdom that will resonate today as they did when the book was first published: “People in their right minds never take pride in their talents†and “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it†are but two examples. Lee’s book deserves multiple readings: each pass through will reveal new delights. Truman Capote’s description: “A touching book; and so funny, so likeable†is wholly apt. Unforgettable.
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First edition identification
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.
