To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South — and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time,To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languagessold more than thirty million copies worldwideserved as the basis of an enormously popular motion pictureand was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A grippingheart-wrenchingand wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudiceit views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girlas her father — a crusading local lawyer — risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.