美國最常銷的書，有翻譯本和電影
Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960)
This 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner was an immediate critical and financial success for its author, with more than 30 million copies in print to date. Harper Lee created one of the most enduring and heroic characters in all of American literature in Atticus Finch, the small-town lawyer who defended a wrongly accused black man. The book’s importance was recognized by the 1961 Washington Post reviewer: "A hundred pounds of sermons on tolerance, or an equal measure of invective deploring the lack of it, will weigh far less in the scale of enlightenment than a mere 18 ounces of new fiction bearing the title ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’"
Opinion: If you read Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" in high school, you probably recall it as a parable of racial injustice in the Jim Crow South. It was more than that. The novel chronicles the persecution of an innocent man by a bigoted and bloody-minded town. Amid the left's crucible of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Lee's enduring lessons about due process merit reflection, writes Allysia Finley.
WSJ.COM
Opinion | The Senate’s Job Isn’t to Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee’s tale shows how prejudice fuels the presumption of guilt.
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