Literature

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee · 1960

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3,639·Classic

66 yrs

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1

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Why it endured

A young girl in Alabama watches her father defend a Black man falsely accused of rape in the 1930s. Won the Pulitzer Prize and has sold 40 million copies. Consistently voted the most influential novel in American life. A masterclass in moral clarity through a child's eyes.

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Bill GatesCo-founder of Microsoft

To Kill a Mockingbird is one of those rare books that can genuinely change a reader's moral sensibility.

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