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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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Canonical Title

To Kill A Mockingbird

Original publication date

1960

People/Characters

Important places

Maycomb County, Alabama, USA

Important events

Great Depression

American Civil Rights movement

Related movies

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962 ∙ IMDb)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1997 ∙ IMDb)

Awards and honors

Pulitzer Prize (Fiction, 1961)

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1960)

Waterstones Books of the Century (1997, No 7)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 06)

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Epigraph

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

Dedication

for Mr. Lee and Alice in consideration of Love & Affection

First words

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

Quotations

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Last words

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