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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration

Written by Harper Lee

Narrated by Stephen Colbert, Isaiah Sheffer and Jayne Anne Phillips

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars4.5/5 (791 ratings)

Length: 1 hour

Publisher:: Symphony Space Audio
Released:: Mar 4, 2011
ISBN:: 9781467663793
Format:: Audiobook

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Readings and conversation with Kurt Andersen, Libba Bray, Stephen Colbert, Oskar Eustis, Mary McDonagh Murphy, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Isaiah Sheffer, a discussion with the audience. Authors and actors including Stephen Colbert, Libba Bray (award winning young-adult novelist Going Bovine, winner of 2010 Printz Award), Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director at The Public Theater), Kurt Andersen (novelist and Studio 360 Host), Jayne Anne Phillips (novelist and National Book Award finalist Lark & Termite), filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy (author of the upcoming book Scout, Atticus, and Boo), and others pay tribute to the Pulitzer prize-winning classic novel about racial injustice and loss of innocence in a small Southern town. One of the most taught -- and frequently challenged -- books of the last 50 years, the book was voted the best novel of the 20th century by librarians. The evening includes readings, discussion and audience Q&A.

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration

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Book Information

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration

Written by Harper Lee

Narrated by Stephen Colbert, Isaiah Sheffer and Jayne Anne Phillips

Ratings:

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars4.5/5 (791 ratings)

Length: 1 hour

Description

Readings and conversation with Kurt Andersen, Libba Bray, Stephen Colbert, Oskar Eustis, Mary McDonagh Murphy, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Isaiah Sheffer, a discussion with the audience. Authors and actors including Stephen Colbert, Libba Bray (award winning young-adult novelist Going Bovine, winner of 2010 Printz Award), Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director at The Public Theater), Kurt Andersen (novelist and Studio 360 Host), Jayne Anne Phillips (novelist and National Book Award finalist Lark & Termite), filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy (author of the upcoming book Scout, Atticus, and Boo), and others pay tribute to the Pulitzer prize-winning classic novel about racial injustice and loss of innocence in a small Southern town. One of the most taught -- and frequently challenged -- books of the last 50 years, the book was voted the best novel of the 20th century by librarians. The evening includes readings, discussion and audience Q&A.

Publisher:: Symphony Space Audio
Released:: Mar 4, 2011
ISBN:: 9781467663793
Format:: Audiobook

About the author

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Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, which became a phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller when it was published in July 2015. Ms. Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honors. She died on February 19, 2016.

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Lee has this style of writing that is so Southern, but so...not. I can't describe how she makes you feel like you're in the South without depending on the dialect. You can feel the slow pace and the dusty roads, you can hear the neighbors gossiping on the porch and lowering their voices to whispers as you walk by. She accomplishes all this and more without employing an excessive amount of y'alls, ya hears, ain'ts, and other Southern phrases that are often overused to try and set the scene.

And the characters, wow. I fell head over heels for Atticus. So smart and reserved, a good father, an honest man. Jem is a really realistic pre-teen boy, if I remember my brother at that age. Scout is the typical tomboy, trying to hold on to her brother as long as she can, if I remember me at that age. Scout reminds me of Ramona Quimby, and for a long time I wanted to be each of them. Good role models.

I think it also says something about the characters and the writing (as much as the power of the story itself) that I could read it and still feel the punch in certain scenes, still cry in certain scenes, still get my hopes up, even though I already knew what was going to happen. This is a novel where the fun is in reading it, not knowing it. It's timeless.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars(5/5)

Lee has this style of writing that is so Southern, but so...not. I can't describe how she makes you feel like you're in the South without depending on the dialect. You can feel the slow pace and the dusty roads, you can hear the neighbors gossiping on the porch and lowering their voices to whispers as you walk by. She accomplishes all this and more without employing an excessive amount of y'alls, ya hears, ain'ts, and other Southern phrases that are often overused to try and set the scene.

And the characters, wow. I fell head over heels for Atticus. So smart and reserved, a good father, an honest man. Jem is a really realistic pre-teen boy, if I remember my brother at that age. Scout is the typical tomboy, trying to hold on to her brother as long as she can, if I remember me at that age. Scout reminds me of Ramona Quimby, and for a long time I wanted to be each of them. Good role models.

I think it also says something about the characters and the writing (as much as the power of the story itself) that I could read it and still feel the punch in certain scenes, still cry in certain scenes, still get my hopes up, even though I already knew what was going to happen. This is a novel where the fun is in reading it, not knowing it. It's timeless.

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A great coming-of-age work highlighting both the ugliness and mercy of man. I read it with my freshman English students each year and always found something new to appreciate.

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A great coming-of-age work highlighting both the ugliness and mercy of man. I read it with my freshman English students each year and always found something new to appreciate.

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A story of the 1930s south, of race, of class, of justice. Through the child-eyes of Scout Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird” examines the consciousness of a small Alabama town suffused with prejudice, violence, and duplicity. Realistic characters populate this unputdownable tale that, on its surface, is a coming-of-age narrative set in the midst of the Great Depression. At its core, however, it is an enduring tale of strength and decency, of humanity. The validity of its timeless, eloquent message makes this a book to be treasured, a book to be read, re-read, and read again. Highly recommended.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars(5/5)

A story of the 1930s south, of race, of class, of justice. Through the child-eyes of Scout Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird” examines the consciousness of a small Alabama town suffused with prejudice, violence, and duplicity. Realistic characters populate this unputdownable tale that, on its surface, is a coming-of-age narrative set in the midst of the Great Depression. At its core, however, it is an enduring tale of strength and decency, of humanity. The validity of its timeless, eloquent message makes this a book to be treasured, a book to be read, re-read, and read again. Highly recommended.

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This book was very engaging- a page turner. I had seen the movie and followed the book quite nicely, but something about the book made the story so much more unique and classical.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(4/5)

This book was very engaging- a page turner. I had seen the movie and followed the book quite nicely, but something about the book made the story so much more unique and classical.

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Drawing upon some of richest source material in American literature, Fred Fordham delivers a reverential adaptation. While the art can be a bit stiff and conservative, the story remains as powerful as ever in this new form. I gulped it down in one sitting.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(4/5)

Drawing upon some of richest source material in American literature, Fred Fordham delivers a reverential adaptation. While the art can be a bit stiff and conservative, the story remains as powerful as ever in this new form. I gulped it down in one sitting.

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I feel sad now that it's over.

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I feel sad now that it's over.

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