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To Kill a Mockingbird

The bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic

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To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Harper Lee
Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
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'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN'

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.

 Classics Coming of Age Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction United States Women's Voices World Literature
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Critic Reviews

No one ever forgets this book
Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable (Truman Capote)
There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition
It would be difficult to argue that Harper Lee’s classic isn’t one of the most—if not the most—beloved of American novels
The enduring appeal of Mockingbird lies not only in the plot or characters; the book is a mirror, a source of endless and revelatory conversation about who we are and have been as a country
The names Scout and Atticus—and, perhaps above all, the name Harper—reflect a respect not just for the arc of history, but for the hope that it does indeed bend toward justice
Novels like To Kill a Mockingbird enlarge the heart and inspire the mind. They have the power to uplift readers and enrich them — no matter where those readers live or how they worship or the color of their skin
A first novel of such rare excellence
The rare classic that speaks to all ages about the less triumphant aspects of American history
A seminal American story, a touchstone of racial tolerance. . . . The book is a marvel, brilliantly structured, wonderfully told in the voice of Scout Finch, a stand-in for its tomboyish author as a child. . . . It’s a book determined to make young readers feel like grownups. . . and grownups feel like children
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I loved this book when I was a kid, and I haven't read it for a long time, but nonetheless I though I would be revisiting i already knew. What i discovered on the other-hand was that Sissy Spacek's narration added a new dimension to the story that made me fall in love with the characters it all over again.

Loved it

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loved it i have always felt like its a book that i should read and im so glad i have

lkved it

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I Loved it. Soothing to listen to, strong story to keep interested. Classic for sure.

Beautiful story, beautiful performance.

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Beautiful story and a great reader. The voice of the reader provides a richness to an already great book.

Beautiful Story

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Where does To Kill a Mockingbird rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

One of the most exquisitely crafted tales I've ever read.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The character of Atticus is a hero of integrity and grit, but the teller of the tale - Jean-Louise (Scout) - is so accessible and honest that it's hard to not love her.

Have you listened to any of Sissy Spacek’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Sissy Spacek's delivery is perfect for this story.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I cried and laughed and cried again. I was spellbound. The language is so carefully constructed that you are totally drawn in to a kind of nostalgia. Although, the childhood described in the tale was very different from my own, the incredibly vivid prose and the naive quality of the main character made me feel like I was reliving my own.

Any additional comments?

A powerful, poignant classic, expertly read.

Sublime

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