To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (Hardcover, Heinemann Educational Books)

Hardcover, 288 pages

English, American English language

Published by Heinemann Educational Books.

ISBN:
978-0-435-12096-2
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One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the United States. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father -- a crusading local lawyer -- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

Lawyer Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson -- a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Writing through the young eyes of Finch's children Scout and Jem, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of …

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Romanzo per giovani adultǝ scorrevole e di forte impatto, ma capisco perché molti americani non apprezzino: vederselo obbligato come libro sul tema razzismo nelle scuole non mi sembra proprio il massimo, visto che se lo si analizza con minuzia cade talvolta nella narrativa del salvatore bianco.

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  • fiction
  • fiction classics
  • contemporary fiction
  • racial segregation
  • mob mentality
  • Southern Gothic
  • southern life
  • racial injustice
  • class
  • courage
  • compassion
  • gender roles
  • laws
  • loss of innocence
  • rape trials
  • domestic fiction
  • legal stories
  • Bildungsromans
  • Race relations
  • Lawyers
  • Girls
  • Prejudices
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Trials (Rape)
  • Great Depression
  • African Americans
  • Father-daughter relationship,
  • Toleranz
  • Kind
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, coming of age
  • Fiction, family life
  • Fiction, legal
  • Fathers and daughters, fiction
  • Southern states, fiction
  • Lawyers, fiction
  • African americans, fiction
  • Social life and customs
  • Manners and customs
  • Padres e hijas
  • Novela
  • Relaciones raciales
  • Procesos por violación
  • Spanish language materials
  • Fiction
  • Father-daughter relationship
  • Domestic fiction
  • Legal stories
  • New York Times reviewed