Mass Market Paperback, 281 pages
English language
Published Aug. 13, 1982 by Warner Books.
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. (back cover)
Pretty overrated. Felt that way when I first read as a 13 year old and still feel that way now. I do not really get the modern circle jerk. I imagine at release it may have been more provocative and though provoking but I really feel as something to read in this century it just kind of falls flat.
