"'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 in the Deep South of the nineteen-thirties. Compassionate, dramatic and deeply moving, To Kill a Mockingbird takes the reader to the roots of human behaviour - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humour and pathos
To Kill a Mockingbird Series
This literary series delves into the complexities of human nature and morality through the eyes of a young girl in a Southern town during the 1930s. The narrative centers on themes of justice, prejudice, and the loss of innocence as her lawyer father defends an innocent Black man. These stories offer profound insights into social inequalities and the power of empathy.
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Go Set a Watchman
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
The 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel
- 323 pages
- 12 hours of reading
"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 rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much. One of the best-loved classics of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recent, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the century (Library Journal) . HarperCollins is proud to celebrate the anniversary of the book's publication with this special hardcover edition.
Harper Lee, To kill a mockingbird
- 430 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Landesabitur Hessen 2020-2022 To Kill A Mockingbird erschien 1960 auf dem Höhepunkt der amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung und traf damit den Nerv der Zeit. Dieser Entwicklungsroman, der umgehend zum Bestseller avancierte, entlarvt die rassistische Bigotterie der Südstaaten aus der Sicht von Scout, einem jungen Mädchen aus einem kleinen Ort in Alabama während der Großen Depression. Der Kern der Handlung ist der Prozess gegen einen jungen Farbigen, der zu Unrecht der Vergewaltigung angeklagt wird, ein Prozess, der sukzessive die schlechtesten und die besten Eigenschaften der Menschen herauskehrt. Der Roman enthält zahlreiche autobiografische und historische Bezüge. So war etwa der Gerichtsprozess im Roman inspiriert von den Scottsboro Boys Prozessen, einem realen Justizirrtum in Alabama in den 1930ern. Damals waren neun dunkelhäutige Jugendliche fälschlich angeklagt worden, zwei weiße Frauen vergewaltigt zu haben. Seit seinem Erscheinen vor über 50 Jahren ist der Roman ein Bestseller geblieben und zum Lieblingsbuch vieler Lehrer und Schüler geworden. Das begleitende Annotations-Heft bietet ausführliche Annotationen, Hintergrundinformationen, eine Timeline und weiterführende Texte für die selbstständige Erarbeitung durch Schülerinnen und Schüler.