To Kill A Mockingbird: 60th Anniversary Edition

(Hardback, Special edition)

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A special edition to celebrate 60 years since the first publication of this unforgettable classic 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy.

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No one ever forgets this book * Independent *
Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor. 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 *
It would be difficult to argue that Harper Lees classic isnt one of the mostif not the mostbeloved of American novels * New Yorker *
The enduring appeal of Mockingbird lies not only in the plot or characters; the book is a mirror, a source of endless and revelatory conversation about who we are and have been as a country * Washington Post *
The names Scout and Atticusand, perhaps above all, the name Harperreflect a respect not just for the arc of history, but for the hope that it does indeed bend toward justice * Atlantic *
Novels like To Kill a Mockingbird enlarge the heart and inspire the mind. They have the power to uplift readers and enrich them no matter where those readers live or how they worship or the color of their skin * Boston Globe *
A first novel of such rare excellence * Chicago Tribune *
The rare classic that speaks to all ages about the less triumphant aspects of American history * Time *
A seminal American story, a touchstone of racial tolerance. . . . The book is a marvel, brilliantly structured, wonderfully told in the voice of Scout Finch, a stand-in for its tomboyish author as a child. . . . Its a book determined to make young readers feel like grownups. . . and grownups feel like children * USA Today *

Author Bio

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. One of America's most celebrated and influential writers, she is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman as well as the story and essay collection The Land of Sweet Forever, published posthumously in 2025. Lee was awarded numerous literary awards and honors including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died in 2016 at the age of eighty-nine.