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To Kill a Mockingbird, orange cover, hardcover, author: Harper Lee, translator: Gao Hongmei
To Kill a Mockingbird, orange cover, hardcover, author: Harper Lee, translator: Gao Hongmei
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Growth is always a vexing proposition. Sometimes growth is slow, like a stream singing a ding-dong song, and sometimes it is so sudden, like a rainstorm... Three children experienced unexpected growth because of several unjust cases in the town - pain and confusion, sadness and anger, but also warmth and touching. This is a classic of growth of love and true knowledge.
To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize.
The most borrowed book in American libraries and one of the most popular novels for British teenagers.
Recommended extracurricular reading materials for American middle schools.
The film adapted from the novel won three awards at the 25th Academy Awards.
In the "100 Screen Heroes and Villains" selected by the American Film Institute, lawyer Finch, played by Peck, ranked first among heroes.
To Kill a Mockingbird has achieved renown as one of the most beloved novels of all time. It has won a Pulitzer Prize, been translated into over forty languages, sold over thirty million copies worldwide, and was made into a popular film.
--HarperCollins Publishing Group
In a June speech to the North Carolina Bar Association, Starr compared himself to Atticus Finch, the brave white Southern lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird. Bill and I found it unbearable that a man like Starr, who with his sense of moral superiority disregarded rules, order, and integrity, could compare himself to Finch.
—Hillary Clinton
When I was young, I watched "To Kill a Mockingbird" and was deeply moved by the stories of lawyers fighting for the rights of the disadvantaged and arguing whether bad laws are illegal or whether bad laws are still laws. This made me more determined to become a lawyer.
——Xu Zongli (Dean of the Law School of National Taiwan University)
About the Author · · · · · ·
Harper Lee (1926- )
Born in Alabama, USA, she has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and many other literary awards. She and Truman Capote were childhood neighbors and lifelong friends. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is said to be one of the prototypes of Capote, and has now become a recognized American literary classic. Since then, she has been living in seclusion in her hometown of Alabama, refusing various interviews and living a quiet life. When someone asked her why she didn't continue writing under the fame, she replied: "After such a time, what else is there to write about?"
