To Kill a Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the 1930s deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind, violent hatred

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. 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 (Scout), as her father—a local lawyer (Atticus)—risks everything to defend a black man (Tom Robinson) unjustly accused of a terrible crime.