To Kill A Mockingbird - Brossura

Lee, Harper

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1784752630 ISBN 13: 9781784752637

Casa editrice: Arrow, 2015

Riassunto

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much-

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Recensione:

"Someone 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 likeable" (Truman Capote)

"There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition" (Sunday Times)

"Her book is lifted...into the rare company of those that linger in the memory..." (Bookman)

Descrizione del libro:

The bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning classic.

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• Editore: Arrow
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784752630
• ISBN 13: 9781784752637
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320