Name: To Kill a Mockingbird
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Author: Harper Lee
ISBN: 9781784870799

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Physical Book

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Harper Lee

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Lee Harper

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Random House Uk

Synopsis "To Kill a Mockingbird "

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidding nearby. Her brother, Jem, and her friend, Dill, want to make Boo come outside. Her story is about justice. When Scout’s father, a lawyer, agrees to defend a black man against an accusation by a white girl, he must battle the prejudice of the whole town.It’s about imagination – not just the kind you need for childhood games. Because you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Harper Lee

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Nelle Harper Lee fue una escritora estadounidense, nacida como Nelle Harper Lee en Alabama, cuya obra dejó una huella profunda en la literatura del siglo XX pese a ser breve en cantidad. Creció en el sur de Estados Unidos, un entorno que marcó decisivamente su mirada moral y narrativa. De carácter reservado y poco amiga de la exposición pública, Lee construyó una voz literaria firme, atenta a la injusticia, la infancia y los dilemas éticos de la vida cotidiana, con una prosa clara que esconde una gran complejidad moral.

Su novela Matar a un ruiseñor se convirtió en un clásico inmediato y le valió el Premio Pulitzer de Ficción, consolidándola como una autora central en la literatura estadounidense. La obra aborda el racismo, la empatía y la justicia a través de una mirada infantil que evita el sermón y apuesta por la humanidad. Décadas más tarde se publicó Ve y pon un centinela, escrita con anterioridad, que permitió revisar el universo narrativo de Lee desde otra perspectiva, confirmando la vigencia y tensión de su legado literario.

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Lee Harper

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(Alabama, USA, 1926 - 2016). American writer. In 1931, a racist conflict in the nearby town of Scottsboro shocked American society. Lee, an indirect witness to the events, was inspired by this incident to write her first and only novel known until 2015, To Kill a Mockingbird, now a literary classic. A personal friend of Truman Capote, Lee decided to retire from the public eye when she gained fame. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. In 2015, the novel Go Set a Watchman was rediscovered, initially rejected by her publishers and one of its subplots is what led to To Kill a Mockingbird.

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