To Kill A Mockingbird

No one ever forgets this book

Independent

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

Truman Capote

A first novel of such rare excellence

Chicago Tribune

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

It would be difficult to argue that Harper Lee's classic isn't one of the most - if not the most - beloved of American novels

New Yorker

The enduring appeal of Mockingbird lies not only int he plot or characters; the book is a mirror, a source of endless and revelatory conversation about who we are and have been as a country

Washington Post

The names Scout and Atticus - and, perhaps above all, the name Harper - reflect a respect not just for the arc of history, but for the hope that it does indeed bend toward justice

Atlantic

Novels like To Kill a Mockingbird enlarge the heart and inspire the mind. They have the power uplift readers and enrich them - no matter where those readers live or how they worship or the color of their skin

Boston Globe

The rare classic that speaks to all ages about the less triumphant aspects of American history

Time

A seminal American story, a touchstone of radical tolerance .. The book is a marvel, brilliantly structured, wonderfully told in the voice of Scout Finch, a stand-in for its tomboyish author as a child ... It's a book determined to make young readers feel like grownups ... and grownups feel like children

USA Today

Here is a storyteller justifying the novel as a form that transcends time and place ... [A] winning first novel by a fresh writer with something significant to say, South and North

New York Times (1960)

All of the tactile brilliance and none of the precocity generally supposed to be standard swamp-warfare issues for Southern writers ... Novelist Lee's prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life

Time (1960)

That rare literary phenomenon, a Southern novel with no mildew on its magnolia leaves. Funny, happy and written with unspectacular precision, To Kill a Mockingbird is about conscience ... and how conscience crows in their small Alabama town

Vogue

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