To Kill a Mockingbird Mass market paperbound - 1989
by Harper, Lee
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- Title To Kill a Mockingbird
- Author Harper, Lee
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 309
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Random House, London
- Publication date 1989
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5742261-6
- ISBN 9780099419785 / 0099419785
- Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 7.01 x 4.34 x 0.67 in (17.81 x 11.02 x 1.70 cm)
- Reading level 790
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 5
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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.
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From the publisher
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.