To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (1960) (1st ed, 22nd printing)

S$275.00

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (1960) (1st ed, 22nd printing)

S$275.00

Title: To Kill a Mockingbird

Author: Harper Lee

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1960. 22nd printing of first edition.

Condition: Hardcover, with dust jacket. Near fine. Not price-clipped. Book not in store. Available via online purchase, or must be reserved in advance if coming to collect from the store.

Book not in store. Available via online purchase, or must be reserved in advance if coming to collect from the store.

About the book (from Wikipedia):

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author’s observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator’s father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explains the novel’s impact by writing, “In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism.”