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Book Review of To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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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 an hatred humor and pathos Now within 15 million copies in print and translated into ten languages, this regional story by 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 to American literature.