To Kill a Mockingbird

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SparkNotes Staff, Harper Lee, Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (2014, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.)

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Pubblicato il 18 Luglio 2014 da Sterling Publishing Co., Inc..

ISBN:
978-1-4114-7193-1
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One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the United States. 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.

Lawyer Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson -- a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Writing through the young eyes of Finch's children Scout and Jem, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of …

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