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 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.
