To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0446310786 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0446310786 Global Overview for this book
Registered by BkLvrInVA of Nokesville, Virginia USA on 9/22/2004
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Sent to fellow bookcrosser Spidechic for a relay.
Journal Entry 3 by spiderchic from Droylsden, Greater Manchester United Kingdom on Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Received in the post yesterday - thank you. Look forward to reading it!
Journal Entry 4 by spiderchic from Droylsden, Greater Manchester United Kingdom on Friday, January 21, 2005
Read this sometime last year and really enjoyed it. It was a book I never had to read at school and felt i'd missed out somewhere - thank you for giving me the chance to finally read it.
Journal Entry 5 by spiderchic from Droylsden, Greater Manchester United Kingdom on Monday, January 24, 2005
Sent to CandyDarling as part of a relay
Journal Entry 6 by CandyDarling from Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Received the book yesterday, thank you spiderchic!
Book description from Amazon.com:
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 roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional 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.
Amazon.com Review
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber
Book description from Amazon.com:
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 roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional 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.
Amazon.com Review
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber
Journal Entry 7 by CandyDarling at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Saturday, February 25, 2012
I gave this book to xoagop to read a while back.
Read this book a long time ago. I remember having a lot of opinions about it but they seem to elude me now so I’ll just say that it was a thought provoking book.
Got the book back from xoagop, and read it after her. I really liked the book, I didn’t know at all what to expect, so I’m glad I had the chance to finally read this classic. It’s interesting that even though the narrator is a six-year-old girl, this isn’t a children’s book.
If you like To Kill a Mockingbird, I also recommed Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor.
If you like To Kill a Mockingbird, I also recommed Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor.
Journal Entry 10 by CandyDarling at Osuuspankin edustalla in Sastamala, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland on Saturday, July 28, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (7/28/2018 UTC) at Osuuspankin edustalla in Sastamala, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland
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