Books with author Harper Lee

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers.

To Kill a Mockingbird Mass Market Paperback – October 11, 1988 by Harper Lee (Author) The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. Product Details Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (October 11, 1988) Language: English ISBN-10: 0446310786 ISBN-13: 9780446310789 Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird . Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch-Scout-struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee's enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.

The classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. One of the best loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960 including the Pulitzer Prize. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.

GO SET A WATCHMAN is set during the mid1950s and features many of the characters from the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Scout Finch has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood

One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and 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, 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.