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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

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.

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.