To Kill A Mockingbird
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First UK Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: DJ: Unclipped (price intact); light corner wear to jacket. Boards square and tight, clean. Text unmarked (no inscriptions/ownership marks).
Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the racially charged 1930s, To Kill a Mockingbird chronicles the story of young Scout Finch, whose father, the principled attorney Atticus Finch, undertakes the near-impossible defence of Tom Robinson — a Black man falsely accused of a terrible crime against a white woman. Narrated through Scout's disarmingly innocent eyes, the novel presents a searing portrait of systemic injustice, moral courage, and the slow, painful unravelling of childhood idealism in a society riddled with prejudice and hypocrisy. Harper Lee's singular masterwork stands as one of the most celebrated and enduring works of 20th-century American literature, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and later adapted into an iconic film. Lee's prose is at once tender and unflinching — she illustrates the moral complexities of human nature through richly drawn characters, most memorably the enigmatic recluse Boo Radley, whose shadow looms large over Scout's formative years. A novel that argues powerfully for empathy as the highest form of justice, it leaves the reader asking whether the conscience of a single person can truly stand against the tide of an entire community's cruelty.
Author: Harper Lee
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Heinemann, London
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: First UK Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: DJ: Unclipped (price intact); light corner wear to jacket. Boards square and tight, clean. Text unmarked (no inscriptions/ownership marks).
Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the racially charged 1930s, To Kill a Mockingbird chronicles the story of young Scout Finch, whose father, the principled attorney Atticus Finch, undertakes the near-impossible defence of Tom Robinson — a Black man falsely accused of a terrible crime against a white woman. Narrated through Scout's disarmingly innocent eyes, the novel presents a searing portrait of systemic injustice, moral courage, and the slow, painful unravelling of childhood idealism in a society riddled with prejudice and hypocrisy. Harper Lee's singular masterwork stands as one of the most celebrated and enduring works of 20th-century American literature, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and later adapted into an iconic film. Lee's prose is at once tender and unflinching — she illustrates the moral complexities of human nature through richly drawn characters, most memorably the enigmatic recluse Boo Radley, whose shadow looms large over Scout's formative years. A novel that argues powerfully for empathy as the highest form of justice, it leaves the reader asking whether the conscience of a single person can truly stand against the tide of an entire community's cruelty.