To Kill a Mockingbird

Informationen zum Autor Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. One of America’s most celebrated and influential writers, she is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman as well as the story and essay collection The Land of Sweet Forever , published posthumously in 2025. Lee was awarded numerous literary awards and honors including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died in 2016 at the age of eighty-nine. Klappentext Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman , and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died on 19 February 2016. Zusammenfassung 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl.

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Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. One of America's most celebrated and influential writers, she is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman as well as the story and essay collection The Land of Sweet Forever, published posthumously in 2025. Lee was awarded numerous literary awards and honors including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died in 2016 at the age of eighty-nine.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Harper Lee
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.02.2004
• EAN: 9780099466734
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946673-4
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Alabama, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Southern, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Relating to African American people, c 1930 to c 1939, Social discrimination and equal treatment, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), FICTION / African American & Black / Historical