To Kill A Mockingbird
One of the greatest and most influential works of modern American literature; "To Kill A Mockingbird" is written by Harper Lee and was published in 1960 by J.B. Lippincott & Co. It was originally copyrighted in 1960 and renewed in 1988. 323 pages of life defining moments that contributed to changing people's perpectives as we know it are present within this novel.
This Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel, is a narrative told through the eyes of a young girl, named Scout, residing in Maycomb County, Alabama; the very deep south of America. This literary work is set in an era of an economic depression, in which Scout's family, along with virtually all other residents, are facing financial and social difficulties; Atticus Finch-the widowed father of Scout and her brother Jem- is a prominent lawyer during these times, and therefore is somewhat better off than many other families. Atticus then takes on a controversial case whose subject is a coloured male, which engulfs his family in racial discrimination from the community.
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