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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 ina 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.

Compassonate, dramatic, and deeply moving, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD takes readers t the roots of human behavior-to innocence and experience, kindnessand cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now withover 15 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regonal 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.