To kill a mockingbird
Record details
- ISBN: 1428113517
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Physical Description:
11 sound discs (12 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
sound recording - Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2006.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | An unabridged performance by Sissy Spacek. |
Summary, etc.: | Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him. |
System Details Note: | Compact disc. |
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Subject: | Southern States Fiction Alabama Fiction Race relations Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Girls Fiction Trials (Rape) Fiction Prejudices Fiction |
Genre: | Legal stories. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. Didactic fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 20 of 21 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Southbury Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 21 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Southbury Public Library | BKCD LEE (BOOK ON CD) (Text) | 34019106271349 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Southbury Public Library | TEEN LEE/BOOK ON CD (Text) | 34019106269384 | Teen Audio Book | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926. She studied law at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, and spent a year as an exchange student in Oxford University, Wellington Square. She moved to New York where she worked as an airlines reservations clerk while pursuing a literary career. In 1959, she accompanied Truman Capote to Holcombe, Kansas, as a research assistant for Capote's novel In Cold Blood. Her first book, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. The book was adapted as a feature film in 1962 and a London stage play in 1987. Her second book, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015. She died on February 19, 2016 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography)