By Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom
Released in 1960, and provided the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird is needed studying for plenty of center and highschool scholars. The coming-of-age story of its younger narrator, Jean Louise Scout Finch, of Maycomb, Alabama, is interwoven with explorations of the problems of prejudice, racism, innocence, compassion, and hypocrisy. Libraries will welcome this necessary and entirely up to date variation of Bloom's sleek serious Interpretations. A compilation of significant present feedback on Harper Lee's first and in simple terms novel gleaned from key guides, this obtainable research consultant additionally contains a chronology of the author's existence and notes at the members.
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