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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Author(s): Harper Lee

Location(s): Monroeville

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1930s

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The novel is renowned for its warmth and humour, yet deals with with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional “tired old town” of Maycomb, Alabama. It focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Their Father agrees to defend Tom Robinson, who is a black man accused of rape. From this point on events spiral..

Set in fictional Maycomb, the poeticised version of the author’s home town Monroeville

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The only book that Harper Lee wrote, a brilliant story and a brilliant evocation of childhood in 1903s Alabama. Cannot be surpassed. – Leigh Fermor –

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