Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, a village that is still her home. She attended local schools and the University of Alabama. Before she started writing, she lived and worked in NEw York in the reservations department of an international airline. She has been awarded the Pulitzer prize, two honorary degrees and various other literary and library awards. Her chief interests apart from writing are nineteenth-century literature and eighteenth-century music, watching politicians and cats, travelling and being alone.
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this enchanting classic - a black man 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 thirties.
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...
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故事發生在美國南部阿拉巴馬州的梅康布小鎮,講述者是8歲多的小女孩SCOUT。就在這一年的夏天,她的生活整個的轉變瞭,因為她的律師父親為一個黑人辯護,她的傢庭受到鎮上其他白人的排擠。整個故事圍繞種族歧視等社會現象展開,卻從一個純潔的小女孩的角度,更凸顯瞭社會的黑...
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Overrated?
評分高中讀的,讀完一身正氣感
評分對Boo Radley的描寫很感動。
評分tt送我的生日禮物,很有意義的書
評分躲在屋裏的疑似鬼不會有房子外的正常人可怕。。孩子們的視角和疑惑、孩子們無知麵對嚴峻時刻的模樣。還有成長。
Harper Lee's to Kill a Mocking Bird 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載