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By (author) Lee, Harper

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”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.

”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.

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Lee explores with
exuberant humourthe irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.

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Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable

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There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition

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Her book is lifted…into the rare company of those that linger in the memory…

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No one ever forgets this book

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There”s a beautiful simplicity to it that means anyone can read it… Transcends any particular time or generation

Biographical note:
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 honors. She died on February 19, 2016.

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A special edition to celebrate 50 years since the first publication of this unforgettable classic