Io Kill a Mockingbird

Informationen zum Autor Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird , originally published in 1960; and Go Set a Watchman , published in July 2015. Ms Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died in 2016. Klappentext '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. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy. 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.

About the author

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, originally published in 1960; and Go Set a Watchman, published in July 2015. Ms Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died in 2016.

Product details

• Authors: Harper Lee
• Publisher: Heinemann Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780434020485
• ISBN: 978-0-434-02048-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Series: William Heinemann
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Alabama, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Southern, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Relating to African American people, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, Relating to African American / Black American people