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To Kill a Mockingbird
Novel by Harper Lee
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's the good American Read

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice within the deep South—and the heroism of 1 man within the face of blind and violent hatred

One of the foremost cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into quite forty languages, sold quite forty million copies worldwide, served because the idea for an enormously popular movie , and was voted one among the simplest novels of the 20 th century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age during a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a lass , as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a Black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.