To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee || Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee || Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide.
Additionally, has served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture Starring, Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters, Frank Overton & James Anderson.
The Film adaptation being selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
Moreover, winning three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peck and Best Adapted Screenplay for Foote, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Badham.
To Kill a Mockingbird was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice.
The book produces a portrait of a world encompassed in 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.