num_pages: 323
description: The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, "To Kill A Mockingbird" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
language: English
title: To Kill a Mockingbird
titlecomplete: To Kill a Mockingbird
characters: Aunt Alexandra, Calpurnia (housekeeper), Stephanie Crawford, Heck Tate, Miss Maudie Atkinson, Judge John Taylor, Dill Harris, Scout Finch, Jem Finch, Arthur Radley, Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell, Atticus Finch (The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns), Tom Robinson
genres: Read For School, Historical Fiction, Historical, School, Novels, Young Adult, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 5841625
places: Maycomb, Alabama, Alabama
series: To Kill a Mockingbird
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Quill Award
category: Audio Book, awardedAt: -283968000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics