ISBN: 9780060935467
Editorial: Harper
Autor: Lee, Harper
Año de edición: 2005
N° Paginas: 336
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl...One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century. Críticas "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." -- Chicago Tribune Contraportada Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. 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. Biografía del autor Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntingdon College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird and has been awarded numerous literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Lee, Harper
- Editorial: Harper
- N° Paginas: 336
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
