Brainiac Books pays tribute to the fiftieth anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, first published July 11, 1960. This novel was one of our favorite books growing up, and the classic film was a great favorite as well.
Shown here is a used copy available from another seller, vintagevampe at Etsy.com.
Below, Brainiac Books‘ sister shop, Arcanium Antiques, has curated this selection of Etsy.com arts, crafts, and vintage items that have resonances with To Kill a Mockingbird. (Clicking on the image will open a new browser window.)
To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary by arcaniumantiques on Etsy.
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Of related interest at Brainiac Books:
Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel, by Truman Capote.
Softcover published 1988 by Plume Contemporary Fiction/New American Library. 180 pages. “Although Truman Capote’s last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time. As it follows the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Cote Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.”–from the publisher.
The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds, by Dewey W. Grantham.
Hardcover published 1994 by HarperCollins. 350pp, Index, B/W photos, maps. “For almost two decades HarperCollins’s New American Nation series has been synonymous with efforts to synthesize history for both students and scholars. As the historical discipline diversified, some of the original volumes fell into disuse, even disfavor. Grantham’s survey of the South since Reconstruction demonstrates the publisher’s wisdom in choosing not to jettison the entire series. The author (history, Vanderbilt Univ.) took upon himself a formidable task. It would have been easy to portray the dramatic change brought about by the Civil Rights revolution and the region’s economic progress as a clear focus for modern Southern history. Instead, Grantham gives the reader background to the vastly different Southern society of a century ago and how that heritage both persisted and was tranformed to where it is today. Most significantly, he demonstrates how strongly the South continues to influence the rest of the nation while remaining a distinctive region. Recommended for general and academic collections.”–Charles K. Piehl, Library Journal, 1994.
Dirt Roads to Dixie: Accessibility and Modernization in the South, 1885-1935, by Howard Lawrence Preston.
Softcover published 1991 by University of Tennessee Press. 206 pages; Index; Notes; bibliographic essay; Chronology; black-and-white photos. “At the conclusion of the nineteenth century, one of the issues that attracted the attention of reformers in the South was road improvements. Populists who subscribed to the tenets of the good roads movement sought to provide farmers with better access to markets, make the cultural and employment opportunities of cities more available, and perhaps even halt the mass exodus of young people from the farms.”–from back cover. Keywords: automobile, Southern, United States, America, American, studies, construction, long-distance, tourist, tourism, highways, interstate, route, motorist, economic, prosperity, transportation, travel.
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