Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harold Bloom
1998
First Published
4.26
Average Rating
103
Number of Pages
Published in 1960 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird is required reading for many middle and high school students. The coming-of-age tale of its young narrator, Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, of Maycomb, Alabama, is interwoven with explorations of the issues of prejudice, innocence, compassion, and hypocrisy. This accessible study guide is a compilation of important current criticism on Harper Lee's first and only novel gleaned from key publications.
Avg Rating
4.26
Number of Ratings
6,549,269
5 STARS
52%
4 STARS
30%
3 STARS
13%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
2%
goodreads
Author
Harold Bloom
Author · 172 books
Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than forty books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies.
