Harper Lee is one of the best female authors. Over fifteen years later, it still held so much for me – wonderful language and characters that I never forgot about and relevancy even so many years later. The first time I read this I was much, much younger and I remember loving it then. And this time it’s To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a timeless classic. With endless books and infinitely more to be written in the future, it is rare occasion that I take the time to reread a novel. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.īook Review: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.Ĭompassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes readers to the roots of human behavior – to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. Theme: Community and Convention, Female Sexuality and Friendship, Faith, Suffering, and God’s Will, Science and Superstition, Justice and Judgmentīook Summary: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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