Go Set a Watchman

Go Set a Watchman is Harper Lee''s earliest known novel. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014,and is now published for the first time. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman is set during an era of rapid change and significant progress in Civil Rights legislation, and it engages with questions of racial equality and justice that are still at the forefront of our national conversation.>

About the author

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 eight-nine.

Report

"Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades... New York Times Opinion Pages: Taking Note

Product details

• Authors: Harper Lee
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.05.2016
• EAN: 9780062409867
• ISBN: 978-0-06-240986-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Harper Perennial
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Literary, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, FICTION: Family Life / General, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Classics, LITERATURE: CLASSICS, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION