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portada To Kill a Mockingbird
Type
Physical Book
Category
Literature
Year
2015
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781784752637
Edition No.
1

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee (Author) · Lee Harper (Author) · Random House Uk · Paperback

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

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Synopsis "To Kill a Mockingbird "

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - 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.
Harper Lee
  (Author)
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Nelle Harper Lee fue una escritora estadounidense, nacida como Nelle Harper Lee en Alabama, cuya obra dejó una huella profunda en la literatura del siglo XX pese a ser breve en cantidad. Creció en el sur de Estados Unidos, un entorno que marcó decisivamente su mirada moral y narrativa. De carácter reservado y poco amiga de la exposición pública, Lee construyó una voz literaria firme, atenta a la injusticia, la infancia y los dilemas éticos de la vida cotidiana, con una prosa clara que esconde una gran complejidad moral.

Su novela Matar a un ruiseñor se convirtió en un clásico inmediato y le valió el Premio Pulitzer de Ficción, consolidándola como una autora central en la literatura estadounidense. La obra aborda el racismo, la empatía y la justicia a través de una mirada infantil que evita el sermón y apuesta por la humanidad. Décadas más tarde se publicó Ve y pon un centinela, escrita con anterioridad, que permitió revisar el universo narrativo de Lee desde otra perspectiva, confirmando la vigencia y tensión de su legado literario.
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Lee Harper
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(Alabama, USA, 1926 - 2016). American writer. In 1931, a racist conflict in the nearby town of Scottsboro shocked American society. Lee, an indirect witness to the events, was inspired by this incident to write her first and only novel known until 2015, To Kill a Mockingbird, now a literary classic. A personal friend of Truman Capote, Lee decided to retire from the public eye when she gained fame. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. In 2015, the novel Go Set a Watchman was rediscovered, initially rejected by her publishers and one of its subplots is what led to To Kill a Mockingbird.
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