To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback, 2003, Perennial Classics)

Paperback, 323 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 2003 by Perennial Classics.

ISBN:
978-0-06-093546-7
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OCLC Number:
970558289

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4 stars (2 reviews)

One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its oritinal publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century. (back cover)

100 editions

A forward novel that we already moved past

3 stars

The book represents a point of view of a child during the 30's written by someone who was a child during the 30's, which brings valuable historical authenticity. It was published in the 60's and due to its immediate success it was a part of a shift in attitudes regarding the civil rights movements of the 70's. Reading the book with this context in mind is an interesting experience because to a contemporary mind, the 60's is in many ways more absurd than was the 30's to the author.

The novel own its own merit is greatly delivered, with enough character building and contextualization that by the time the main plot arrives my metropolitan millennial mind is decently acclimatized to a completely alien society and culture. The naive, progressive-household-raised, clean slate kid point of view gives the narrator plausible bewilderment when facing the pervasive racial injustice and hypocrisy the book …

Recensione de "Il buio oltre la siepe"

4 stars

Romanzo per giovani adultǝ scorrevole e di forte impatto, ma capisco perché molti americani non apprezzino: vederselo obbligato come libro sul tema razzismo nelle scuole non mi sembra proprio il massimo, visto che se lo si analizza con minuzia cade talvolta nella narrativa del salvatore bianco.

Subjects

  • Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
  • Race relations -- Fiction.
  • Trials (Rape) -- Fiction.
  • Girls -- Fiction.
  • Southern States -- Fiction.