To Kill a Mockingbird

Arrow's 50th anniversary edition of the bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning classic.

To Kill a Mockingbird has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 40 languages
The 1962 film of the book starring Gregory Peck won three Oscars and three Golden Globes
Voted the most loved book of the last 60 years by The Times readers in October 2009

'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.

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.