Please spare Mockingbird an Introduction. As a reader I loathe Introductions. To novels, I associate Introductions with long gone authors and works that are being brought back into print after decades of interment. Although Mockingbird will be 33 this year, it has never been out of print and I am still alive, although very quiet. Introductions inhibit pleasure, the kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. The only good thing about Introductions is that in some cases the delay the dose to come. Mockingbird still says what it has to say; it has managed to survive the years without preamble.
Harper Lee
12 February 1993
YOU ARE READING
to kill a mockingbird.
General FictionOne of the best-loved 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 th...
