Viva Modern Critical Interpretations To Kill A Mockingbird

Published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s only novel, won instant popular success and became an international bestseller. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, and has since been translated into forty languages. Yet, despite its tremendous commercial success, the critical response to the novel has been mixed, and the book has often fallen prey to censorship. Nevertheless, To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the most universally read books in the United States and continues to impact new generations of readers across the world. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most widely read novels of all time. Ever since its publication in 1960, it has also been one of the books most frequently challenged by world-be censors. A Staple of high school reading lists for more than four decades, and the source for one of the nation’s most beloved films, Harper Lee’s novel is bound to be on most shortlists of contemporary classics. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo’s White Noise.