To Kill a Mockingbird

The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

Informationen zum Autor Nelle Harper Lee is known for her Putltzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, her only major work. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by Library Journal. Ms. Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature in 2007. Her father was a lawyer who served in the Alabama state legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate, Truman Capote. After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to assist him in researching his bestselling book, In Cold Blood. Since publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee has granted very few requests for interviews or public appearances and has published no other novels. Klappentext 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 15 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. Zusammenfassung Julias Welt ist voll unsichtbarer Grenzen. Manchmal gelingt esihr ganz gut! sich drüberzuschwindeln! die Leute nicht merkenzu lassen! daß sie nicht so gut hören kann wie andere. Großvater Grops und Harry Hutter sind Julias Familie. Bei ihnen hat Julia es nicht nötig zu schwindeln. Sie akzeptierenJulia so! wie sie ist. Harry war einmal ganz unten - kaputt underledigt -! und er hat sich aus eigener Kraft aus dem Schmutzgezogen. Die Tätowierungen auf seinen Armen erzählendie abenteuerliche Geschichte seines Lebens. Mit Harry kann Julia über alles reden! auch über Gottund die wirklichen Wunder. Julia selbst findet! sie sei gesund- vollkommen gesund. Ihre Mutter findet das nicht. Sie willJulias angeborenen Gehörschaden von einem berühmtenWunderheiler kurieren lassen. Tausende Menschen strömen ins alle Kurbad am See! zum angekündigtenHeilungsgottesdienst. Allen Sturmwarnungen zum Trotz... Gründlich recherchiert! mit zahlreichen authentischen Elementen!bürgt dieser Roman für Diskussionsstoff und Spannungbis zum Schluß. ...

Autorentext

Nelle Harper Lee is known for her Putltzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, her only major work. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by Library Journal. Ms. Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature in 2007. Her father was a lawyer who served in the Alabama state legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate, Truman Capote. After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to assist him in researching his bestselling book, In Cold Blood. Since publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee has granted very few requests for interviews or public appearances and has published no other novels.

Klappentext

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 15 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.

Zusammenfassung
"Marvelous . . . Miss Lee's original characters are people to cherish in this winning first novel."-The New York Times