To kill a Mockingbird

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"'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 in the Deep South of the nineteen-thirties. Compassionate, dramatic and deeply moving, To Kill a Mockingbird takes the reader to the roots of human behaviour - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humour and pathos