To Kill A Mockingbird
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323 pages · Released Sep 3, 2026 · HarperPerennial ModernClassics
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a masterwork about racial injustice and moral courage set in 1930s Alabama, told through a child's perspective. While it addresses mature themes including rape accusations, racism, and violence, it does so with literary merit and ultimately affirms the importance of standing up for what is right. The book contains racial slurs (used historically and critically, not endorsed), discussion of sexual assault, and some violence, making it most appropriate for mature middle-grade and high school readers. Atticus Finch remains one of literature's most powerful models of integrity and compassion.
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One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the United States. A gripp... One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the United States. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father -- a crusading local lawyer -- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. Lawyer Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson -- a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Writing through the young eyes of Finch's children Scout and Jem, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in small-town Alabama during the mid-1930s Depression years. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. \ To Kill a Mockingbird PDF --- Also contained in: - Best Sellers from Reader's Digest Condensed Books
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ISBN 9780060935467 · HarperPerennial ModernClassics