To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Jul 2014 · Cornerstone Digital · Narrated by Sissy Spacek

About this audiobook

Brought to you by Penguin.

'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN'

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

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

Ratings and reviews

A book worth living to read it. A story, so profoundly humane that made me feel how the greatness of the heart makes magnificent thoughts that live forever and we can read and think and imagine.

It took me 50 years before I read this! Heard about it, but I’m not from USA and I was not exposed to it. I can see why it’s controversial, and I believe a really important reminder of the way we are channeled and exposed and indoctrinated. I really enjoyed this book and the narration was spot on!

I'd like to read the book written by the one star 'vigilante ' couldn't even use their real name. this is a great story even for today in the USA that still supports racism. although this is fiction it is still so close to real events. take a look at 'Till' the story of Bo Till lynched in 1953. I recently saw the stage play of this book in London. both book and play are BRILLIANT Geoff

About the author

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died on 19 February 2016.