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To Kill a Mockingbird
- Narrateur(s): Sissy Spacek
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Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook.
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th 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 - a crusading local lawyer - risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
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"It's good to be reminded of the power wielded by this classic of American literature. As the introductory music fades and Sissy Spacek begins her narration, we immediately enter the small town in the Deep South where all the timeless issues of kindness and cruelty, inclusion and prejudice are played out in a story told by a little girl named Scout. Instead of offering a range of accents, Spacek reads the story entirely in her own, or Scout's, voice. The choice works, for the book is written from Scout’s point of view, and Spacek has just the right level of Southern accent for easy listening. This is an unforgettable story well told. 2007 Audies Award Winner." (AudioFile magazine)
"Atticus Finch is a timeless American hero who has been played by the likes of Gregory Peck in film and Jeff Daniels on the stage. But in Sissy Spacek’s narration of To Kill a Mockingbird, it’s Harper Lee’s narrator, Scout, who becomes the listener’s moral guiding light and closest confidante. You forget you’re listening to the voice of an adult, so wholly do Spacek’s Southern rhythms embody the young tomboy as she witnesses the racial injustices of the Depression-era South unfold before her." (The New York Times Book Review)
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- Sally
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wonderful
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- isaac maw
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Sissy Spacek rules
a review requires at least 15 words. All I wanted to say is in the title.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-07-13
Wonderful book. Everyone should read this.
Wasn't really interested in book until a few years ago. it is a wonderful book. Great story line, I would recommend this book for everyone to read.
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- Wendy McLaughlin
- 2020-05-09
Highly recommended!
Outstanding story and amazing narration! Fully deserving of its status as a classic. I will definitely listen to this book again.
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- RAS
- 2019-11-04
Spacek performs this classic beautifully
I had not read this since grade school. Glad I decided to pick it up in audio. A great, timeless classic. Maybe not PC enough to be on the reading list for grade schools now, but relevant for the times. Spacek's performance was captivating.
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- Kc
- 2019-11-03
A classic
I remember reading this in high school and not enjoying it because I was forced to read it. So I decided now to listen to it and Sissy Spacek reading was phenomenal. I have to admit I was very shocked every time she used words that were probably more excepted in the 60s than they are now. I’m not saying to change the words because that is the way the book was written, but I winced and cringed hearing those words.
I absolutely loved the story.
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- David Preston
- 2019-09-26
A classic through and through
To kill a Mockingbird is an absolute classic in every sense. Many of us grew up reading this book in school, doing essays, and enjoying the original classic with Gregory Peck. The audio book brought me right back to those times with a well paced reading. Sissy Spacek does an incredible job adding a little southern twang without going head over heals. I could not stop listening to this book and ended up finishing it in a couple sittings. I highly recommend re-watching the original movie after you finish the audio book to top it all off.
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- ckpete
- 2018-09-24
awesome story!
I loved this book!! so many good messages in it!!I highly recommend it to everyone.
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- Anonymous User
- 2018-09-13
Excellent Listen
Fantastic book only made more enjoyable with the narration by Sissy Spacek. I would recommend as a must listen. #Audible1
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- IsabelleD
- 2022-03-26
I get why it's a classic
I picked this book because I've heard the title so many times in my life, and I had absolutely no idea what it was about. I must say, for the first half of the book, I wondered what the big fuss was all about. The story line went nowhere and everywhere at once. Until the main event comes up. Then I got it. It's a criticism of social status in the South of the USA, told from the point of view of a young girl. I get why this book is considered a classic. I see its value. For the USA. As for whether I liked it or not... I guess I'm glad I didn't actually have to read it. Listening to it was okay because it was so effortless, but had I actually read it, I'm not sure I would have even got to the main event :P
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- Melle Flor Tercero
- 2017-11-15
One of the best books ever written and interpreted
Sissy Spacek is an awesome interpreter of this American classic. I loved it and recommend it to anyone who has a good heart.
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- carron s.
- 2021-05-24
A great book. It outmatched my best expectations
The story that this book tells is awesome. Simple but addictive in a way. I'll probably buy the real book. The reader's performance was good and her accent perfect for this book.
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- Pierre Gauthier
- 2016-07-10
Gripping but Flawed!
This famous novel is set before World War II in the Southern United States and deals with the issue of race relations.
Well-structured and enthralling, it disturbingly presents two major flaws that may prove fatal to many readers:
• the narrator is a small girl who perceives reality with her own eyes but does not at all write in a juvenile style; it is never explained why this story is written or to whom it is addressed;
• the dénouement occurs as two small children walk home from a school show, in the dark, by themselves; it is not convincingly explained why their guardians did not attend or at least accompany them there and back.
Overall, the interest of this work lies in the fact that it is so well known rather than its intrinsic qualities.
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- Fletch
- 2014-08-02
It's all about timing and time
Listening to "To Kill a Mockingbird" in 2014, what strikes me are the three eras. Here we have a very personal book written 54 years ago about a time 30 years in the past of the author. I constantly kept thinking about 1960 and 1930 and whether the same story would be told the same way by a modern version of Harper Lee.
Lee wrote fondly but with the judgement of an adult about a white child growing up in the south in the 1930's. It's clear that the civil rights movement, though yet to really get started in 1960, was building to a boil at the time she wrote her one and only novel.
Lee tried to subtly apply her beliefs to the book and slowly separate the bigotry of the past (and her present) from the enlightenment that is even now slowly coming to our culture. Her writing is not unlike the true authors of the New Testament Gospels writing about the past decades later but writing for their time and for their audience. Lee's writing is with purpose but also knowing that if you beat the reader over the head with your message, you will lose them every time. No, you have to wrap the medicine in sweet candy and let the reader enjoy the sweet and endure the bitter.
It IS a sweet book and Atticus Finch is the kind of man we can all aspire to be. It's an important book that reminds us that there are good people and bad people everywhere and in every time. It's a great book that tells us that even though we are in many ways products of the culture we live in, right is right and wrong is wrong and we just can't let injustice stand simply because it's "acceptable" to our current society. It's an enjoyable book that takes us back to the innocence of childhood and portrays a very special set of relationships and how they appear to an 8 year old girl.
Beyond the book itself, there is also Sissy Spacek. I was concerned that her reading would not live up to the material, but I was wrong. I came to the book after watching and loving the movie. I worried that the voice of Scout I had heard from Kim Stanley (Scout as an adult) and Mary Badham (Scout as a child) in the movie would not be "right" coming from Ms. Spacek. However, all of her voices match perfectly. This is one time where the book and the movie are not in competition. The movie is as good as the book and just helps you see better than your imagination what Macom looked and felt like. Not to plug the movie here, but Lee and Horton Foote did a masterful job of taking this book and faithfully transferring it to the screen. No, not every detail from the book is in the movie, but it's still a complete telling of the story and was deserving of all of it's accolades, too.
This is not a riveting mystery or a great biography. This book is a timeless yet timely book so well crafted and with a clear message.
You need to listen to this book. Whether you are a baby boomer like me, a gen-Xer, or a millenial, it's a great experience that will stay with you.
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- Linda B.
- 2014-10-02
What a pairing
A wonderful narration by Sissy Spacek adds to the enjoyment of this classical literary gem.
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- David Shear
- 2014-07-09
A gift to be treasured
The perfect book and the perfect narrator come together here to create an American treasure. I don't have the vocabulary to speak highly enough of how special this book is on Audible.
Sissy Spacek's narration of this story is genius. She goes beyond even the great narrators like Patton, Hill, and Hurt. Her performance is not just technically perfect, it's illuminating. She's so smooth between characters. I can't even detect how she changes her voice and tone between Jim and Scout, but she does, just ever so slightly. It's hard to explain how amazing it is. I can see the dirt road, I can smell the dirty kid next to Scout in her class, I can feel the summer breeze on the back porch where they sleep. Yes, it's Harper Lee that creates that amazing imagery, but Spacek makes it an intimate experience that I felt honored to be a part of.
The book and story of course are above being "reviewed." It's a beautifully crafted story where every word is so intentional. The writing is dense with meaning while flowing perfectly.
It's a shame that Harper Lee only had one book published. Or maybe Mockingbird is such a gift that maybe it needs to stand alone.
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- caitlin
- 2018-05-06
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This book is great for teachers to give to students if they wanna put us through hell. :)
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- Richard Delman
- 2018-11-16
So much talent. So much warmth and wisdom. A gift.
The positive reviewers rave about this masterpiece, and every single one of them is right. It is hard to find words to adequately describe how powerful this accomplishment is. I had seen the movie about fifty years ago, and I remember thinking that Gregory Peck was the only man who could play Atticus Finch. Well, now comes Sissy Spacek, who plays all of the characters in the book with grace, gentleness and love. We get to know Scout, Jem and Atticus so completely, so intimately: they feel like our family, only better. Atticus is without doubt the perfect father, never losing his temper even in the face of the astonishing evil that his own townspeople serve up. I spent two years in the South in the 1960s. Some of the people there still had the unimaginable prejudice against black people: one of my fraternity brothers at Vanderbilt, an otherwise fine guy, could not eat in the same room as a black person. The book evokes memories of lots of people like that. You just cannot understand them. Even the knowledge that they grew up in that environment, that they had no choices about what to think, but when they grow up and see the true evil on offer in the world? How can they not gain a little wisdom?
This book is a true American masterpiece, a work that could not have arisen out of any country other than ours. Racial prejudice is everywhere, of course, but the particular brand of it that lives in the American South is so insidious, so horrid, that the mind boggles. The kind of animal that Bob Ewell is, a man who repeatedly rapes and beats his own daughter and then blames all of his misery on the innocent Tom Robinson: this is a tragedy that chokes us up. It should not happen. Harper Lee absolutely deserved the Pulitzer and every other award she could receive. There is more wisdom in one chapter of this book than in literally dozens of novels that I have read. You must listen to it yourself, at least once. I will let a year go by, and then begin again with the joy that only this performance gives. I hope you love it too.
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- Mel
- 2014-07-13
Leaves me breathless each time
How many books have you lived in; walked the streets waving to old ladies on their front porches, smelled pound cakes cooling on window ledges, knew which houses to give a wide berth when passing by, and missed when you left? Like Twain's enduring fictional classic Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird is a story so well told, so perfect, that you stroll through it and dwell for a while, coming away from it different for having been there. For many of us we visited Harper Lee's Maycomb to get our HS diploma, and it seems a natural progression to go back. I wonder if we miss those characters, or the healing balm of hearing a precocious little girl's voice cry out, "Hey, Mr. Cunningham. I'm Jean Louise Finch...I go to school with Walter; he's your boy aint he?"
As she shows so many times in her one and only novel, Harper Lee is a born story teller. The back stories of the characters are immense, yet told with an economy of words that contain volumes. You experience this especially your second time through...Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, what have you suffered to become so mean; what has Mr. Dolphus Raymond learned about people that keeps him content to have townsfolk believe that's a bottle of whiskey, instead of a regular ol' Coca Cola, in that little brown sack; how has Link Deas kept his humanity; does every town spit out a Bob Ewell; and what is Miss Maudie's pound cake recipe? -- there's a not an insignificant character or event in this book. It is a treasure trove of stories and lessons. I'd love a couple hours of Calpurnia talking about the day old Tim Johnson, Judge Taylor's dog, came shuffling down the road, rabid and threatening, sending the neighborhood into their homes, barring their windows... But Lee left us with just this one brilliant book.
To Kill A Mockingbird was published July 11, 1960 and has never gone out of print. When contemplating whether to review this (what I think is THE perfect novel), I had to wonder "is there really anything that hasn't already been said?" In this case, *Sissy Spacek*; no matter how many times you have read this novel, or even listened, Spacek, with her sweet drawl, IS Scout, speaking back through the years, recounting her story. She is the perfect choice for a perfect novel.
Though it is cliché to say it, this beautiful novel feeds your spirit. The easy wisdom reminds us of the importance of having understanding and love for others, demonstrated without guile or pretense by the innocence of children. The moral integrity and gentle strength of Atticus brings tears to my eyes (and has inspired the line *What would Atticus do?*) just thinking that we as human beings have the capability of such grace. Quotes from this superb novel fill notebooks I keep, but it is always two words, repeated half a dozen time by Jem, when his father orders him to take Scout and flee the angry mob at the jail, that choke me up. They contain all that there is of love, courage, and strength...even a young boy's faith in mankind, "No, Sir." They get me every time.
*[Addressing the frequent use of the *N* word; quoted from Banned Books Awareness;
A worldwide literacy project to celebrate the freedom to read.: "The American Library Association reports that To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most challenged classics of all time because of the racial slurs and discussion of rape and incest, and still ranks at number 21 of the 100 most frequently challenged books." "In 1968 the National Education Association placed the novel second on a list of titles receiving the most complaints from private organizations. The top spot belonged to Little Black Sambo."]
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- mollyc
- 2014-07-08
Sissy Spacek knockes it out of the park.
Would you listen to To Kill a Mockingbird again? Why?
I first listened to this recording more than 10 years ago on a road trip with my family. It is one of the best-read audiobooks I've ever had the pleasure of listening to, and I am so excited my pre-order finally came in so I can relive that experience.
What does Sissy Spacek bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
She captures Scout completely - sometimes it's difficult for me to "get inside" younger protagonists's heads and Sissy Spacek makes that a non-issue.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
For me, the most moving moment in this book has always been when the entire black community stands up when Atticus passes under them in the courtroom.
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- Jan
- 2014-07-09
Don't hesitate for a even second... !!!
I have search for this book on Audible regularly, hoping it would eventually appear - oh my goodness, it was well worth the wait! The book is the much beloved, Pulitzer Prize winning classic we all met in school.
The only question left is "how is the narration?"
The answer: Sissy Spacek does as good as I have heard or better!
Wish I could give this book a 10 star rating.
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- AmznGirl
- 2019-10-01
boring
struggled to listen, yawn, could not finish. would like to trade for another book, please
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- Wendy Dyer
- 2019-01-31
😣😣😖😖😔😔
I struggled to finish it but the narrator was amazing so I guess that helped.
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