Exploring some of the embedded genres in Lee's 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Blackford (English, Rutgers U.) finds 19th-century philosophy, the 19th-century novel, the modernist method, modernist polyphony, post-World War II Southern writing, and modern women's regional writing. Her unifying theme is that of passing, or creating an identity behind which the real self can hide from a society that would destroy it. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Mockingbird Passing

A personal and passionate recounting of the human-nature relationship in the South is offered in a narrative that explores all of the South's peoples and their landscapes and also relates what southerners have thought about their part of the earth.

Mockingbird Song

At the age of eight, Scout Finch is an entrenched free-thinker. She can accept her father's warning that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. The benefits said to be gained from going to school and keeping her temper elude her. The place of this enchanting, intensely moving story is Maycomb, Alabama. The time is the Depression, but Scout and her brother, Jem, are seldom depressed. They have appalling gifts for entertaining themselves—appalling, that is, to almost everyone except their wise lawyer father, Atticus. Atticus is a man of unfaltering good will and humor, and partly because of this, the children become involved in some disturbing adult mysteries: fascinating Boo Radley, who never leaves his house; the terrible temper of Mrs. Dubose down the street; the fine distinctions that make the Finch family "quality"; the forces that cause the people of Maycomb to show compassion in one crisis and unreasoning cruelty in another. Also because Atticus is what he is, and because he lives where he does, he and his children are plunged into a conflict that indelibly marks their lives—and gives Scout some basis for thinking she knows just about as much about the world as she needs to.

To Kill a Mockingbird (slipcased edition)

Mockingbird

For use in schools and libraries only. The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a young girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025. Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read 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 most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition)

События романа разворачиваются в Америке в 30-е годы прошлого века на фоне Великой депрессии. Повествование идёт от лица маленькой девочки, чей отец, честный адвокат, берётся защищать чернокожего, обвиняемого в жестоком преступлении в расистском южном штате Алабама. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень Pre-Intermediate.

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