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To Kill a Mockingbird" has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and remains a fixture on school reading lists.
This resource provides information about Harper Lee's life and experiences growing up in Alabama in the 1930s and examines her two novels,
To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, in terms of their literary structure and themes, their historical context, their impact, and issues of race, the status of women, class, the South, the figure of the hero, and censorship, as well as controversies raised by the novels that are relevant today.
15 ( ANI ): The latest Broadway adaptation of '
To Kill a Mockingbird', a 1960 classic novel penned by Harper Lee, has been hit with a lawsuit by the writer's estate.
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To Kill a Mockingbird" has been targeted, at various times, by both.
"We are happy that schools will be able to acquire our trade edition of '
To Kill a Mockingbird'--a superior reading experience, with its larger trim size and greater durability--at the lower price they have become accustomed to," Michael Morrison, the president and publisher of HarperCollins, said in a news release.
To Kill A Mockingbird also became a core piece of literature in the British curriculum and is found on many essential reading lists.
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To Kill a Mockingbird became one of those rare books that for at least one generation of American readers was a rite of passage, much loved yet still
Lots of people asked why, after such success,
To Kill a Mockingbird was Harper Lee's only novel until she was published again last year.
While there, she worked on the manuscript for her first book -
To Kill A Mockingbird.
THE family of
To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee, who has died aged 89, has said she was a "generous soul" and that they will "miss her dearly".
To Kill A Mockingbird went on to become a classic and, apart from the Pulitzer, she was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.