To Kill a Mockingbird
Awards
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003.Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.
Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.
Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1961.
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Description
At the age of eight, Scout Finch is an entrenched free-thinker. She can accept her father's warning that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. The benefits said to be gained from going to school and keeping her temper elude her.
The place of this enchanting, intensely moving story is Maycomb, Alabama. The time is the Depression, but Scout and her brother, Jem, are seldom depressed. They have appalling gifts for entertaining themselves--appalling, that is, to almost everyone except their wise lawyer father, Atticus.
Atticus is a man of unfaltering good will and humor, and partly because of this, the children become involved in some disturbing adult mysteries: fascinating Boo Radley, who never leaves his house; the terrible temper of Mrs. Dubose down the street; the fine distinctions that make the Finch family "quality"; the forces that cause the people of Maycomb to show compassion in one crisis and unreasoning cruelty in another.
Also because Atticus is what he is, and because he lives where he does, he and his children are plunged into a conflict that indelibly marks their lives--and gives Scout some basis for thinking she knows just about as much about the world as she needs to.
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kelly561 commented:
You cant really read the whole thing online,but there's a website that kinda Summarized it up for you,its 'SPARKNOTES.COM' hope this help
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Reviewed by Valerie Strauss
Nov 7, 2010 - The Independent
Reviewed by Katy Guest
Jun 27, 2010 - The New York Times
Reviewed by JULIE BOSMAN
May 24, 2004
Frankly, I don't see what's so special about this book. It's well written, but it... more
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