To Kill a Mockingbird

Published as an edition for young adults (for 12+) for the very first time. The Vintage Children’s Classics list is home to some of the finest writing for young people, from Treasure Island and Swallows and Amazons to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and The Boy in the Striped PyjamasTo Kill a Mockingbird is a National Curriculum set textTo 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 traditionWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeSold over 30 million copies worldwide, and has been translated into over 40 languagesThe 1962 film of the book starring Gregory Peck won three Oscars and three Golden GlobesHarper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died on 19 February 2016.

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

Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy.
This edition of one of the world’s best-loved books features the original text.

**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Harper Lee announced she would be releasing a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird this summer – 55 years after her debut. Go Set a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than half a century, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird and features Scout as an adultNo one ever forgets this bookSomeone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeableThere is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully writtenA hundred pounds of sermons on tolerance, or an equal measure of invective deploring the lack of it, will weigh far less in the scale of enlightenment than a mere eighteen ounces of new fiction bearing the title To Kill a Mockingbird