Harper Lee has agreed for To Kill a Mockingbird to be
made available as an ebook
and digital audiobook, filling one of the biggest gaps in the digital
library.
made available as an ebook
and digital audiobook, filling one of the biggest gaps in the digital
library.
In a rare public statement released through her
publisher, HarperCollins, Lee said: 'I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty
old books and libraries. I am amazed and humbled that Mockingbird has survived
this long. This is Mockingbird for a new generation.'
publisher, HarperCollins, Lee said: 'I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty
old books and libraries. I am amazed and humbled that Mockingbird has survived
this long. This is Mockingbird for a new generation.'
The announcement came almost a year after she sued her
former literary agent Samuel Pinkus to regain rights to her novel. Lee claimed
she had been duped into signing over the copyright.
former literary agent Samuel Pinkus to regain rights to her novel. Lee claimed
she had been duped into signing over the copyright.
The lawsuit was settled in September. Lee's attorney,
Gloria Phares, said at the time that the case had been resolved to the author's
satisfaction, with 'her copyright secured to her'.
Gloria Phares, said at the time that the case had been resolved to the author's
satisfaction, with 'her copyright secured to her'.
The Pulitzer prize-winning novel will be released
digitally on 8 July.
digitally on 8 July.
With digital holdouts from JK Rowling to Ray Bradbury
changing their minds over the past few years, Lee's novel had ranked with JD
Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as a missing prize for ebook readers.
changing their minds over the past few years, Lee's novel had ranked with JD
Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as a missing prize for ebook readers.
First published in July 1960, Mockingbird has sold more
than 30m copies worldwide, and that total is climbing by more than 1m copies a
year, according to HarperCollins.
than 30m copies worldwide, and that total is climbing by more than 1m copies a
year, according to HarperCollins.
It was adapted into a 1962 movie of the same name that
featured an Oscar-winning performance by Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, the
courageous Alabama attorney who defends a black man against charges that he
raped a white woman.
featured an Oscar-winning performance by Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, the
courageous Alabama attorney who defends a black man against charges that he
raped a white woman.
The audiobook will be a downloadable
edition of the existing CD narrated by Sissy Spacek. HarperCollins is also
releasing an 'enhanced' ebook that will feature additional material.
Spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said the extra features had not yet been determined.
edition of the existing CD narrated by Sissy Spacek. HarperCollins is also
releasing an 'enhanced' ebook that will feature additional material.
Spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said the extra features had not yet been determined.
Other works still unavailable as ebooks include The
Autobiography of Malcolm X and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of
Solitude.
Autobiography of Malcolm X and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of
Solitude.
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It seems almost mean-spirited to raise objections to To Kill a Mockingbird. It has pleased and edified millions of readers (literally) for two generations. No father in American literary history is more beloved than Atticus Finch, especially after the solemn portrayal by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film. My Popular Library edition of the novel, published in 1962, has an epigraph by Mr. Peck, which concludes, “I think perhaps the great appeal of the novel is that it reminds readers everywhere of a person or a town they have known. It is to me a universal story—moving, passionate and told with great humor and tenderness.”1
But that is only half the impression of To Kill a Mockingbird. The other half isn’t universal at all. It’s the tale of a particular place at a particular time fraught with a specific historical sin. It begins as soon as the juvenile world of Scout and her peers opens onto the civic universe of Maycomb County, Alabama. There, American history, not preteen adventures, becomes the context for the action. The core sequence, the lethal handling of Tom Robinson, comes straight out of the Jim Crow South circa 1930, and the impact depends upon our sense of national shame.
But it takes only a little moral realism and historical knowledge to recognize that Tom’s case fails as moral and historical truth. Scout’s sensibility is plausibly presented, to be sure, but as she watches the courtroom drama unfold, what she learns about human nature and race-based society is oversimplified and inaccurate.
The simplification starts with Tom’s character. As the testimony commences, it is clear that Tom is innocent of sexual assault. Mr. Ewell and Mayella take the stand and lie through their teeth. But Lee doesn’t limit Tom’s innocence to the precise accusation. Throughout the episode, Tom never discloses any darker motive, any bitterness or wrath or lust. He is generous, obedient, responsible, and honest. An ignorant young woman and her dangerous father threaten his life, but he has no harsh words for them. When Atticus asks, “Tom, did you rape Mayella Ewell?” he has a blunt response:“I did not, suh.”
“Did you harm her in any way?”
“I did not, suh.”2
The curtness of his replies signifies the bare facts of the matter, along with Tom’s lack of guile. He knows his freedom and his existence are at stake, and so he must convince everyone of his innocence, but at no point does Lee hint that Tom is play-acting.
Tom’s pure moral standing has a paradoxical effect. It eliminates any genuine moral conflict. He is so benign, so artless and trusting and pure, that he doesn’t even count as a moral agent. He doesn’t choose to be good, he just is good. Mayella feels desire for him, but he feels no desire for her. We might attribute Tom’s abhorrence of desire solely to the penalties a black man suffers should he ever be caught eyeing a white woman that way. But again, we have no hint of it in Tom, no “double consciousness.”
A real moral conflict would present Tom as a real man, one who, when a young woman throws herself at him, reacts with mixed emotions. Instead of displaying a fantasy courtroom in which a one-dimensional, all-wholesome man endures ridiculously baseless charges—a setup that yields easy moral judgments, telling everyone exactly what to think and feel—Harper Lee would give Tom a full humanity that includes sexual desire, leaving readers to manage an authentic moral conflict over this taboo.
The historical inaccuracy is a different problem. It applies to another character, Mayella, and what she does at a critical moment of the trial. Under humiliating cross-examination by Atticus, she halts the proceedings and declares,I got somethin’ to say an’ then I ain’t gonna say no more. That nigger yonder took advantage of me an’ if you fine fancy gentlemen don’t wanta do nothin’ about it then you’re all yellow stinkin’ cowards, stinkin’ cowards.3
It’s a powerful moment, but an unlikely one. The Ewells are a squalid white trash clan. They sit at the bottom of the white side of a caste society. The middle-class men of the jury and the county officers would hardly let one of them (a girl!) hijack the trial and insult them. This isn’t a backwoods meeting; it’s a county seat. A short time later the judge roars in fury when a man in the audience cries out that Tom has worked for him and never caused a “speck o’ trouble.” Here, the judge does nothing.
Lee implies that everyone sees Mayella as a victim of her own degraded background. They pity her. But this is to sentimentalize the social situation of poor whites in the South, to ignore the region’s intense class consciousness. It makes for good melodrama, but bad history.
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Sadly, American readers today prefer it that way, in regard to both Tom’s purity and Mayella’s authority. The first suits their penchant for moral polarities, the second their egalitarian sympathies. That’s one of the secrets of To Kill a Mockingbird’s success. It lets people forget about class attitudes and interpret black men as pure victims.
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is redemption, suspense and fiction novel which plots the story of a lawyer who risks his life to bring justice to the black man. This novel is very popular and it is translated into forty languages. Harper Lee is the author of this classic novel. The novel was awarded as the best novel of the twentieth century. There is a family living in the South, a beautiful young girl, and her father. There has been a case in the court where the black man charged into jail on the accused of rape. He did the terrible crime of raping the white girl and now he is in prison.
The father of the young girl is a lawyer who has a very good reputation in the department. He got the case of a black man, after listening to the story from him, he believes this man is not guilty. This man was just prison due to his colour and other personal reasons. The raping scene is just a drama and nothing more than this. He starts reading his case and got the petition to the court. Lawyer tries everything to give justice to the black man but all the evidence are favouring the white girl. What happened next still suspense?
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- Name: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Authors: Harper Lee
- Publish Date: July 5, 2005
- Language: English
- Genre: Fiction, Redemption, Paranormal
- Format: PDF
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- Pages: 336
- Price: Free
- ISBN: 0060935464
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