Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the dee p south—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translate d 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 Sou th poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage i nequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local law yer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime .