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Whistle Stopper - To Kill a Mockingbird
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List Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446310789
ISBN: 0446310786
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 1988-10-11
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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Summary: Great!!Love this book
Comment: it was all great the shipping was fast the price was just right loved it
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Summary: LOVE THIS BOOK!
Comment: I bought from this book after I watched the movie. I haven't finished the book yet,but it is really a great book to read. Strongly recommend!
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Summary: American Classic
Comment: Harper Lee wrote only one novel. And it is probably one of the best books ever written. It's a beautiful story of the South and one incredible and emotional year, all told through the observant and innocent eyes of a little girl called Scout.
This is a great book on so many levels. On one hand, it's simply about a girl and her life and her adventures, just like any other basic kid's books. But what she truly experiences goes beyond what many kids experience as she sees first-hand the effects of hardship, racism, and poverty, all from her small Southern town.
The themes are strong, but never forced, only eloquently stated when they must be obvious out of necessity. The writing is quaint, charming, and utterly reminiscent of a time gone by.
Harper Lee's masterpiece is touching, harsh, and altogether one of the most beautiful celebrations of humanity ever written.
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Summary: The reason one reads
Comment: This is a book which should change your life. Of course it is an outstanding American story; more, it is a study of American character--exceptional and inhuman. You will, if you read carefully, be forced to reckon you are more like a Finch or more like a Ewell. And, after that reckoning, you will different forever.
I'm sorry I read this so late in my life. (I would have accomplished more by following the example of Atticus.) But for the remainder of my days, I pledge allegiance to Atticus Finch. His example is that important, that just, that right.
Require yourself to read it; require those you can influence to read it. About the time this book was published, an important black man said: If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. I don't believe this is overstatement in these troubled times in America. If you don't read "To Kill a Mockingbird" you are part of the problem. And, if you don't end up being--or striving to be--more like Atticus Finch, you are part of the problem.
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Summary: Classic book
Comment: This book is a classic. It was required reading for my fifteen year old daughter and she loved it.
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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
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