Samenvatting
Uitgever: Little, Brown &Amp; Company
- Engelstalig
- 384 pagina's
- 9780446310789
- oktober 2013
To Kill a Mockingbird, an unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, 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.
De Amerikaanse schrijfster Harper Lee was niet haar hele leven schrijfster. In New York heeft zij jarenlang gewerkt als receptioniste bij een vliegtuigmaatschappij.
De Amerikaanse schrijfster Harper Lee heeft in haar leven maar twee boeken geschreven; To Kill a Mockingbird (1988) en Go Set the Watchman (2015). To Kill a Mockingbird is een wereldwijde bestseller. Een onvergetelijke roman over het opgroeien in een stad in het zuiden van Amerika ten tijden van de crisis.
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Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable Truman Capote There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition Sunday Times Her book is lifted...into the rare company of those that linger in the memory... Bookman No one ever forgets this book Independent
