To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by American writer Harper Lee, written in the genre of an educational novel. Published in 1960. In 1961 he received the Pulitzer Prize. To Kill a Mockingbird - study in about 80% of American schools.

The plot and characters are based on the author's observations of his family, neighbors and events that took place in her hometown in 1936 when she was 5 years old.

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is famous for its humor and warmth, despite the discussion of such serious things as rape, racism and how children compare the financial situation of their families. The father of the narrator, Atticus Finch, became a model of morality for many readers, as well as an example of an honest lawyer, notes critic E. Kuzmin, "the lesson of high civil and human courage that gives us Harper Lee, the more weighty that Atticus - in general, an ordinary, inconspicuous person; that he is shown through the perception of the guys who are passionately experiencing all his actions; that the children themselves are acquiring something important in our eyes. " The novel holds the idea that children have an innate sense of justice and acquire prejudice only under the influence of others.

Roman To Kill a Mockingbird took the sixth line in the list of 200 best books on the BBC version of 2003. For 2016, the total circulation of the novel is 30 million copies. It was included in the list of best-selling books by Publishers Weekly for 1960, 2015 and 2016.

The Russian language was translated by Nora Gal and Raisa Oblonskaya. Kornei Chukovsky in the book "High Art" (1964) lists the translation of the story of Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird, co-authored by N. Gal and R. Oblonskaya, among the translations that could be useful to young translators as samples and textbooks; The review of the Russian edition of I. M. Levidov also highly appreciated the translation.