To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published in 1960 and became an instant bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner, telling the story of a young girl and her lawyer father in a small Southern town in the 1930s and dealing with issues of racism and loss of innocence. The novel explores themes of good versus evil and the loss of childhood wonder and sees through the eyes of Scout Finch and her brother Jem about their lawyer father Atticus Finch's defense of a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. It has been translated into over 40 languages and sold over 15 million copies worldwide.

1. 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 very roots
of human behavior – to
innocence and experience,
kindness and cruelty,
love and hatred, humor
and pathos. Now with
over 15 million copies in print and
translated into forty languages, this
regional story by a young Alabama
woman has claimed universal appeal.
Harper Lee always considered her
book to be a simple love story. Today
it is regarded as a masterpiece
ofAmerican literature.
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