To Kill a Mockingbird

"Marvelous . . . Miss Lee's original characters are people to cherish in this winning first novel." (The New York Times )"A novel of great sweetness, humor, compassion, and of mystery carefully sustained." (Harper's Magazine )"Remarkable triumph . . . Miss Lee writes with a wry compassion that makes her novel soar." (Life magazine )"Miss Lee wonderfully builds the tranquil atmosphere of her Southern town, and as adroitly causes it to erupt a shocking lava of emotions." (San Francisco Examiner )"Skilled, unpretentious and tototally ingenuous . . . tough, melodramatic, acute, funny." (The New Yorker )