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基本信息·出版社：Grand Central Publishing
·页码：288 页
·出版日期：1988年
·ISBN：0446310786
·条形码：9780446310789
·装帧：平装
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内容简介Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus's children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930's.
--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
作者简介Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended the local schools and studied law at the University of Alabama. For some years she spent most of her time in New York City, where, until she began writing, she was employed in the reservations department of an international airline. "Aside from writing," says Miss Lee, "my chief interests in life are collecting memoirs of nineteenth-century clergymen, golf, crime and music."
--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression,To Kill a Mockingbirdfollows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout''s first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes fromDraculaand plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children''s consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout''s hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking,To Kill a Mockingbirdis one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often.--Alix Wilber
From Library Journal
Lee''s Pulitzer Prize-winning first (and last) novel of racial injustice in a small Southern town ranks among just about everyone''s favorite books. This 35th-anniversary edition contains a brief new foreword by the elusive Lee. (LJ
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Vogue
That rare literary phenomenon, a Southern novel with no mildew on its magnolia leaves. Funny, happy and written with unspectacular precision,To Kill a Mockingbirdis about conscience - how it is instilled in two children, Scout and Jem Finch; how it operates in their father, Atticus, a lawyer appointed to defend a Negro on a rape charge; and how conscience grows in their small Alabama town.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From AudioFile
Roses Prichard''s masterful narration of Lee''s classic novel, originally produced for Books on Tape in 1991, has been repackaged by Audio Partners for the consumer market. Prichard''s skill and talents are evident; all the characters sound true and absolutely real. Listeners hear Scout''s developing wisdom and maturity as the story progresses. Prichard achieves the monumental task of creating--and maintaining--authentic voices for a diverse group of characters while infusing the story with emotional resonance. This stunning production captures the listener and doesn''t let go. M.A.M. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From500 Great Books by Women; review by Marilyn Meyer
In 1960,To Kill a Mockingbirdwon the Pulitzer prize; thirty years later shopping malls may have replaced the main street of Maycomb, Alabama, but not even thirty years of Civil Rights laws or the gentrification of ante-bellum estates render this book an anachronism. Harper Lee combines two of the most common themes of Southern writing - a child''s recollection of life among eccentrics in a small town seemingly untouched by the twentieth century and the glaring injustice of racial prejudice - to create a contemporary American classic.To Kill a Mockingbirdhas two main threads which carry the plot. The first involves the role of Atticus Finch, who is appointed to defend a shy black man accused of raping the oldest daughter of the town''s least respected citizen. The second is the mythology arising out of the reclusive Boo Radley, about whom it was said "when people''s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them." But what saves the novel from cliche are the irreverent perceptions of the story''s narrator, Atticus Finch''s nine-year-old daughter Scout, who depicts mean racist aspects of Southern life as well as humorous and quite often satirical vignettes.To Kill a Mockingbirdonly gets better with rereading; each time the streets of Maycomb become more real and alive, each time Scout is more insightful, Atticus more heroic, and Boo Radley more tragically human.-- For great reviews of books for girls, check outLet''s Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14.
Vogue
"That rare literary phenomenon, a Southern novel with no mildew on its magnolia leaves. Funny, happy and written with unspectacular precision,To Kill a Mockingbirdis about conscience--how it is instilled in two children, Scout and Jem Finch; how it operates in their father, Atticus a lawyer appointed to defend a Negro on a rape charge, and how conscience crows in their small Alabama town."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Chicago Tribune
"A first novel of such rare excellence that it will no doubt make a great many readers slow down to relish more fully its simple distinction...A novel of strong contemporary national significance."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Time
"All of the tactile brilliance and none of the precocity generally supposed to be standard swamp-warfare issues for Southern writers...Novelist Lee''s prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of use truths about little girls and about Southern life...Scout Finch is fiction''s most pealing child since Carson McCullers''s Frankie got left behind at thewedding."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Kliatt, July 1998
"Prichard is excellent...her expressiveness of the dialogue is remarkable. Her reading is engaging and evocative. Listeners can almost see the story unfolding like a movie...We recommend this reading highly."--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
AudioFile, October 1997
"Prichard''s skill and talents are evident; all the characters sound true and absolutely real. Listeners hear Scout''s developing wisdom and maturity as the story progresses. Prichard achieves the monumental task of creating -and maintaining authentic voices for a diverse group of characters while infusing the story with emotional resonance. This stunning production captures the listener and doesn''t let go."--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Rochelle O''Gorman Flynn,Boston Globe, December 7, 1997
"Harper Lee''sTo Kill a Mockingbirdis...so masterfully narrated that one could listen to [it] repeatedly...Not only among the best I''ve heard all year, but the best I''ve heard in years."--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The New Yorker, October 19, 1998
"...artfully read."--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Deirdre Donahue,USA TODAY, July 23, 1998
"[Prichard] does a spectacular job in capturing the voice of the young narrator, Scout. Her performance renders beautifully the different voices, the nuances, the drama, the child''s perspective. The result is spellbinding...While the movie is terrific, this unabridged audiotape is so much richer and includes so much more small-town nuance and flavor."--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
