Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, a village that is still her home. She attended local schools and the University of Alabama. Before she started writing, she lived and worked in NEw York in the reservations department of an international airline. She has been awarded the Pulitzer prize, two honorary degrees and various other literary and library awards. Her chief interests apart from writing are nineteenth-century literature and eighteenth-century music, watching politicians and cats, travelling and being alone.
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this enchanting classic - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties.
The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice.
But the weight of history will only tolerate so much...
I am not sure what is the last good novel I read, but next time, when someone ask me to recommend an english novel, I will definitely suggest this book. I would say , anyone who still possesses some memories of the frolic days in their childhood would soo...
評分故事发生在美国南部阿拉巴马州的梅康布小镇,讲述者是8岁多的小女孩SCOUT。就在这一年的夏天,她的生活整个的转变了,因为她的律师父亲为一个黑人辩护,她的家庭受到镇上其他白人的排挤。整个故事围绕种族歧视等社会现象展开,却从一个纯洁的小女孩的角度,更凸显了社会的黑...
評分 評分我现在要写篇这本书的文章,正愁着呢..英文版的看不进去,哪里有中文的啊?...哎..不过说回来,故事还是蛮有趣的///...
評分有意思的南方小說
评分Overrated?
评分big issues through trivial talking
评分孩子的視角看種族歧視,有些道理並非天經地義 隻不過我們習以為常的東西就會想當然認為是對的 這也是一種悲哀
评分about growth and race
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