Harper Lee

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Nová kniha, která byla napsána již před vydáním fenomenální „Jako zabít ptáčka“ a odehrává se dvacet let poté… Šestadvacetiletá Jean Loiuse Finchová (Čipera) se vrací z New Yorku do Maycombu v Alabamě, aby navštívila svého stárnoucího otce Atticuse. Doma zjišťuje, jak se její město i blízcí lidé pod tlakem politických i rasových motivů změnili. Najednou se jí začnou vybavovat vzpomínky na

Go Set a Watchman

From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean

Jako zabít ptáčka

Maycomb v Alabamě je bezvýznamné ospalé provinční městečko obklopené poli s bavlnou. Ve 30. letech 20. století jsou Spojené státy americké zachváceny hospodářskou krizí, ale ta se obyvatel Maycombu dotýká jen okrajově. O letních prázdninách je největší starostí osmileté Čipery a dvanáctiletého Jema vymýšlení plánu, jak vylákat místního podivína z jeho dobrovolného domácího vězení. Když je

Go Set A Watchman

Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father’s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place

The Land of Sweet Forever

To Kill a Mockingbird

'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

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee’s novel, published in 1960, has been the centre of controversy again of late, with the question of its appearance on UK schools’ reading lists. For me, it’s no surprise that it’s one of the most studied books in the canon - it’s a classic of American literature, a powerful meditation on prejudice and intolerance which is also a complex and highly skilled exploration of character,

The Land of Sweet Forever