To Kill A Mockingbird

Author Harper Lee
Narrator Sissy Spacek
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 8 July 2014
Run Time 12 hours and 18 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Classic fiction, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Social issues, Racism and racial discrimination, Society and Social Sciences.

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'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN'

'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 falsely 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 1930s. 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.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.

Critics Review

Lee explores with exuberant humourthe irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.

The Week

Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable

Truman Capote

There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition

Sunday Times

Her book is lifted...into the rare company of those that linger in the memory...

Bookman

Unbelievably, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, has never been properly available in Britain until now - but Harper Lee's wonderful novel, first published in 1960, has been worth the wait. Sissy Spacek brings all the characters to life as young Scout Finch watches her lawyer father, Atticus, do battle for the life of a black man who's been accused of the rape of a white girl in a Deep South town steeped in ignorant prejudice. Set in the 1930s, this is a tale that will never age...

Daily Express

Sissy Spacek's reading is electrifying.

The Guardian

Narrator Sissy Spacek's portrayal of Scout Finch is mesmerising

Stylist

User Reviews

Book 5.0

Narration 5.0

5.0

A wonderful classic, beautifully written and a heartwarming story. Did it for o level at school but enjoyed it so much more decades later. Sissy, the narrator is perfect and brings the characters to life. Some narrators are annoying which is very distracting but Sissy is not!

zil640152 23/07/2024

5.0

sradu 15/01/2024

5.0

A classic story, definitely recommend.
Sissy Spacek's narration is perfect for it.

n2mcguire 06/12/2023

5.0

Lambreta 03/02/2023

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