✨To Kill A Mockingbird : 50th Anniversary Edition

'Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit them, but remember that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.'

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird in Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man accused of raping a white girl. Through the childlike eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with liberal humor the irrational attitudes of adults toward race and class in the 1930s Deep South. Conscience of a flooded town. in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy are tormented by the endurance of one's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only bear so much.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama about the Great Depression, and a great example of the Southern writing tradition.