To 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 The perennially beloved and treacly account of growing up in a small Southern town during the Depression....To read the novel is! for most! an exercise in wish-fulfillment and self-congratulation! a chance to consider thorny issues of race and prejudice from a safe distance and with the comfortable certainty that the reader would never harbor the racist attitudes espoused by the lowlifes in the novel. Zusammenfassung ___________________________________'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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Harper Lee
• Editore: Arrow
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780099549482
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954948-2
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 110 mm x 178 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Arrow Books; Arrow
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; 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