Voted America\u00b4s Best-Loved Novel in PBS\u00b4s The Great American Read  Harper Lee\u00b4s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South\u2014and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred  One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father\u2014a crusading local lawyer\u2014risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.