《殺死一只知更鳥：50周年紀念版》

Author： Harper Lee

Publisher： Arrow

“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 in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice， violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story， an anti-racist novel， a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.

“你可以射殺那些冠藍鴉，如果你能射中，但是切記，殺死那些知更鳥是有罪的。”

這是一個律師在為哈珀·李的經典之作的真正知更鳥——一個被指控強奸白人女孩的黑人——辯護時，給他的孩子的建議。哈珀從斯格特和杰姆的視角，對上個世紀三十年代美國南方腹地成人對種族和階級的荒唐觀點進行了描述，文筆幽默詼諧。書中的小鎮充滿偏見、暴力和虛偽，我們的主人翁在追求正義的過程中不斷與之斗爭。然而歷史早已注定了結局。

《殺死一只知更鳥》是一部成長小說，反種族主義小說，是關于經濟大蕭條的歷史劇作，也是美國南方作品的代表作品。