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100 BEST NOVELS OF ALL TIMES - 2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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    100 BEST NOVELS OF ALL TIMES - 2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    100 BEST NOVELS OF ALL TIMES - 2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful upon its release and has become a classic of modern American fiction. The novel is loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

    Biographical background and publication:
    Born in 1926,Harper Lee grew up in the Southern town of Monroeville, Alabama, where she became close friends with the soon-to-be famous writer Truman Capote. She attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery.(1944–45) and then pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama (1945–49). While attending college, she wrote for campus literary magazines: Huntress at Huntingdon and the humor magazine Rammer Jammer at the University of Alabama. At both schools, she wrote short stories and other works about racial injustice, a rarely mentioned topic on these campuses at the time.In 1950, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a reservation clerk for British Overseas Airways Corporation; there, she began writing a collection of essays and short stories about people in Monroeville. Hoping to be published, Lee presented her writing in 1957 to a literary agent recommended by Capote. An editor at J. B. Lippincott advised her to quit the airline and concentrate on writing. Donations from friends allowed her to write uninterrupted for a year.

    Lee spent two and a half years writing To Kill a Mockingbird. A description of the book's creation by the National Endowment for the Arts relates an episode wherein Lee became so frustrated that she tossed the manuscript out the window into the snow. Her agent made her retrieve it from the street.The book was published on July 11, 1960. It was initially titled Atticus, but Lee retitled the novel to reflect a story that went beyond a character portrait.The editorial team at Lippincott warned Lee that she would probably sell only several thousand copies at the most.In 1964, Lee recalled her hopes for the book when she said, "I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird.' … I was
    hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers but, at the same time, I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected."Instead of a "quick and merciful death", the book was republished in part by Reader's Digest Condensed Books, which gave it a wide readership immediately.Since its publication, it has never been out of print.

    Sally Darling brings Harper Lee's tour de force of a young girl's encounter with the beauty and the ugliness of human nature to vibrant life. Scout Finch, the daughter of a southern lawyer, reflects upon her childhood years. In a series of engrossing events the tale of life in a small southern town unfolds. Never slow, the narrative moves swiftly from one action to another in highly fluid form. From the eyes of a little girl, the reader witnesses the unfolding of a series of events through which she is brought face to face with prejudice and bigotry. The forms that this prejudice takes are both subtle and obvious. Black and white, old and young, rich and poor, cultured and earthy, educated and ignorant, Scout encounters hatred and fear in almost all the people around her. Her world is shown in a series of expanding circles with herself in the center, her brother and friend next, her father and housekeeper next, then neighbors, teachers, schoolmates etc. in ever widening circles. Starting with the outermost people and working inward, the innermost hatreds of the human heart are revealed to her. As she awakens to more and more varieties of prejudice she seeks to separate herself from them. During the climax of the book, Scout is shown, for the first time, her own heart and the prejudice within. In a moving final narrative, she admits her own failing and awakens to true compassion and empathy. The narration by Sally Darling is perfectly in keeping with the spirit of the novel. In silky southern tones Ms. Darling brings the story to almost a visually compelling life. The novel introduces us to a variety of the townsfolk in a richness that makes us seem as though we ourselves live in that town, and Ms. Darling's insightful characterizations bring the people out in an almost tangible reality. The coupling of one of the most outstanding novels of our time with the animated and believable narration provides the listener with an unparalleled experience that only gets better with each listening. An unqualified triumph.

    To Kill a Mockingbird is the story of the early childhood of Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, chronicling the humorous trials and tribulations of growing up in Maycomb, Alabama, from 1933 to 1935. Maycomb's small-town Southern atmosphere -- in which nobody locks their doors at night and the local telephone operator can identify callers solely by their voices -- contributes to the security of Scout's world, just as pervasive forces of racism threaten to unsettle it. Scout's devotion to her older brother, Jem, and her hero-worship of her father, the defense attorney Atticus Finch, infuse this story with an uncommon intimacy and affection.

    I quite enjoyed the book. The language used by harper lee is one generation primitive.I had minor hiccups in understanding words used to describe some situations.The idea of reading a novel such as this having predominantly an adult story and characters through the eyes of an eight year old was a welcome concept.The novel deserved the pulitzer for the social message it sent out but as a reader i have read far more gripping novels than this.I certainly wont recommend this novel to be at number 2 position.a worthwhile read nevertheless.
    A wonderful book not because of its social message or moral fiber, rather TKaM stands up as an amazing literary work because of the writing--the memorable characters, charming scrapes, and voice (powerful despite--or in--its naivete, often humorous by accident). The story actually feels like it could've been your own childhood. Top-notch story-telling.

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