To Kill A Mockingbird

~~ A special centenary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of American literature to mark one hundred years since the birth of Harper Lee ~~<BR><BR>'Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor.'<BR>TRUMAN CAPOTE<BR><BR>'No one forgets this book.'<BR>INDEPENDENT<BR><BR>'One of the best first novels I remember ... uniquely unsentimental.'<BR>GUARDIAN<BR><BR>'There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written.'<BR>SUNDAY TIMES<BR><BR>'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'<BR>A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with a serious crime.<BR>Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.<BR>The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice.<BR>But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.<BR>