TY - BOOK TI - To kill a mockingbird SN - 9780749301347 AV - PS3562.E353 T63355 2010 U1 - 813/.54 22 PY - 1989/// PB - Mandarin KW - Lee, Harper. KW - Race relations in literature KW - Lawyers in literature KW - Racism in literature KW - Fathers and daughters in literature KW - Girls in literature KW - Not so classic (English) KW - Novels N2 - 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 ER -