Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it?? <em>To Kill A Mockingbird</em> became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960.  It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film?? also a classic.<br /><br /> Compassionate?? dramatic?? and deeply moving?? <em>To Kill A Mockingbird</em> takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience?? kindness and cruelty?? love and hatred?? humor and pathos.  Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages?? this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal.  Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story.  Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.<br /><br /><br /></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><I>"as nearly thirteen?? my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them?? we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all?? but Jem?? who was four years my senior?? said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us?? when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.">  Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb?? Alabama?? during the Depression?? <I>To Kill a Mockingbird</I> follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch?? her brother?? Jem?? and their father?? Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes?? Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race?? class?? justice?? and the pain of growing up. <p>   Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town?? Lee takes her time getti"rt of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She?? her brother?? and Dill Harris?? a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb?? while away the hours reenacting scenes from <I>Dracula</I> and plotting ways to get a peek at the