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To Kill A Mockingbird
- Author
- Harper Lee
- Narrator
- Sissy Spacek
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 8 July 2014
- Run Time
- 12 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: coming of age, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism
- Rating
- 4.8 (5 reviews)
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN'
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.
Critics Review
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No one ever forgets this book
Independent
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Someone rare has written this very fine 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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There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition
Sunday Times
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It would be difficult to argue that Harper Lee’s classic isn’t one of the most—if not the most—beloved of American novels
New Yorker
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The enduring appeal of Mockingbird lies not only in the plot or characters; the book is a mirror, a source of endless and revelatory conversation about who we are and have been as a country
Washington Post
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The names Scout and Atticus—and, perhaps above all, the name Harper—reflect a respect not just for the arc of history, but for the hope that it does indeed bend toward justice
Atlantic
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Novels like To Kill a Mockingbird enlarge the heart and inspire the mind. They have the power to uplift readers and enrich them — no matter where those readers live or how they worship or the color of their skin
Boston Globe
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A first novel of such rare excellence
Chicago Tribune
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The rare classic that speaks to all ages about the less triumphant aspects of American history
Time
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A seminal American story, a touchstone of racial tolerance. . . . The book is a marvel, brilliantly structured, wonderfully told in the voice of Scout Finch, a stand-in for its tomboyish author as a child. . . . It’s a book determined to make young readers feel like grownups. . . and grownups feel like children
USA Today
User Reviews
Book 4.8
Narration 4.8
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5.0 5.0
A wonderful classic, beautifully written and a heartwarming story. Did it for o level at school but enjoyed it so much more decades later. Sissy, the narrator is perfect and brings the characters to life. Some narrators are annoying which is very distracting but Sissy is not!
zil640152 2024-07-23 -
5.0 5.0
A classic story, definitely recommend.
Sissy Spacek's narration is perfect for it.n2mcguire 2023-12-06
Details
- Author
- Harper Lee
- Narrator
- Sissy Spacek
- Duration
- 12 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 July 2014
- ISBN
- 9781473517769
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: coming of age, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism
- Rating
- 4.8(5 reviews)
- Narration
- 4.8(5 reviews)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. 'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN''Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.
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