New Releases by Harper Lee

A new traditional Chinese edition of \"To Kill a Mockingbird,\" Harper Lee''s classic - a tender story told through the eyes of the 8-year old Scout Finch. In depression era south a white lawyer faced enormous challenges defending a black man accused of raping a white woman. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

At the age of eight, Scout Finch is an entrenched free-thinker. She can accept her father''s warning that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. The benefits said to be gained from going to school and keeping her temper elude her. The place of this enchanting, intensely moving story is Maycomb, Alabama. The time is the Depression, but Scout and her brother, Jem, are seldom depressed. They have appalling gifts for entertaining themselves—appalling, that is, to almost everyone except their wise lawyer father, Atticus. Atticus is a man of unfaltering good will and humor, and partly because of this, the children become involved in some disturbing adult mysteries: fascinating Boo Radley, who never leaves his house; the terrible temper of Mrs. Dubose down the street; the fine distinctions that make the Finch family "quality"; the forces that cause the people of Maycomb to show compassion in one crisis and unreasoning cruelty in another. Also because Atticus is what he is, and because he lives where he does, he and his children are plunged into a conflict that indelibly marks their lives—and gives Scout some basis for thinking she knows just about as much about the world as she needs to.

A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.

\"In his play, Christopher Sergel has shifted the focus slightly. The result of this shift, I believe, hightlights the novel''s universal qualities. [He] reminds us...that the issues explored are not those of a ''regional'' work of art (as the novel is often categorised) but are of importance in Nottingham, Manchester, Birmingham or wherever the play is seen by an audience.\" - from Ray Speakman''s introduction.

The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

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