To Kill A Mockingbird

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'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

No one ever forgets this book
Independent
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
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
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
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
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
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
A first novel of such rare excellence
Chicago Tribune
The rare classic that speaks to all ages about the less triumphant aspects of American history
Time
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

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pollderby 21/07/2025
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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 23/07/2024
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sradu 15/01/2024
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A classic story, definitely recommend.
Sissy Spacek's narration is perfect for it.
n2mcguire 06/12/2023
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