To Kill a Mockingbird

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.

Paperback, 50th Anniversary, 323 pages
Published May 23rd 2006 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published 1960)
ISBN0061120081 (ISBN13: 9780061120084)
edition language:English
original title:To Kill a Mockingbird
url: http://tokillamockingbird50year.harpercollins.com/
characters: Scout Finch, Atticus Finch, Jem Finch, Boo Radley
setting: Maycomb, Alabama, 1935 (United States) 
Alabama (United States) 

literary awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1961)

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