To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Published by Grand Central Publishing, 1982 ISBN 10: 0446310786 ISBN 13: 9780446310789 Seller: Eaglestones, Oudtshoorn, South Africa Seller Rating: Contact seller Book First Edition Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good £ 20.71 Convert currency £ 13. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. 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. '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. First Edition To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Lippincott, 1960 Hardcover Book Seventeenth Printing ad vertisement by TheRareBookCompany Ad vertisement from shop TheRareBookCompany TheRareBookCompany From shop TheRareBookCompany.
Dust jacket in removable protective sleeve. There is a previous-owner inscription to front end page. First impression hardback in very good condition. An extremely attractive, unrestored first edition of Lees powerful novel.
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