To Kill a Mockingbird, 50th Anniversary Edition

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By Harper Lee

In a small Alabama town during the Depression, the lawyer Atticus Finch is appointed to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. He takes the case seriously, which most of his neighbours cannot forgive.

The story is told by his daughter Scout, six years old when it begins, who understands the adults around her only in part and reports them exactly. Through her, Harper Lee examines the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class, and the cost of one man’s quiet insistence on doing the right thing.

First published 1960