To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee
Grand Central Publishing
Oct 1988
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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.

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"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” —Judge Taylor
"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” —Miss Maudie
“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” —Atticus Finch
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.” —Reverend Sykes
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.