Dans une petite ville d'Alabama, à l'époque de la Grande Dépression, Atticus Finch élève seul ses deux enfants, Jem et Scout. Avocat intègre et rigoureux, il est commis d'office pour défendre un Noir accusé d'avoir violé une Blanche. Ce bref résumé peut expliquer pourquoi ce livre, publié en 1960 - au coeur de la lutte pour les droits civiques des Noirs aux États-Unis -, connut un tel succès.
Mais comment ce roman est-il devenu un livre culte dans le monde entier ? C'est que, tout en situant son sujet en Alabama dans les années 1930, Harper Lee a écrit un roman universel sur l'enfance. Racontée par Scout avec beaucoup de drôlerie, cette histoire tient du conte, de la court story américaine et du roman initiatique. Couronné par le prix Pulitzer en 1961, Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur s'est vendu à plus de 30 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde entier.
Milieu des années 1950. Jean Louise Finch, dite « Scout », est de retour à Maycomb, sa petite ville natale de l'Alabama, pour rendre visite à son père, Atticus. La nation se déchire autour des questions raciales. Confrontée à la société qui l'a façonnée mais dont elle croit s'être affranchie en partant vivre à New York, Jean Louise va découvrir ses proches sous un jour inédit...
En 2015, Harper Lee a créé la surprise en publiant un second roman, suite de l'incontournable best-seller, Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur, où l'on retrouve l'inoubliable héroïne Jean Louise, vingt ans après. Chronique douce-amère de l'adieu à l'enfance, entre tendresse et férocité, espoir et désenchantement, Va et poste une sentinelle a été écrit avant le livre culte, prix Pulitzer en 1961.
Passionnant ! Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle.
Une fiction poignante, qui retrace un malaise d'autant plus profond qu'il reste incompris. On tient là un nouveau classique. François Vey, Le Parisien magazine.
Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father''s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.>
A beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee's beloved American classic, voted the #1 Great American Read 2018.
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement.
Now, this most beloved and acclaimed novel is reborn for a new age as a gorgeous graphic novel. Scout, Jem, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch and the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, are all captured in vivid and moving illustrations by artist Fred Fordham.
Enduring in vision, Harper Lee's timeless novel illuminates the complexities of human nature and the depths of the human heart with humour, unwavering honesty and a tender, nostalgic beauty. Lifetime admirers and new readers alike will be touched by this special visual edition.
Modern fictionA 50th anniversary edition of the classic novel set in the Deep South of the 1930s. Lee's only novel, it won the Pulitzer Prize on its original publication in 1960. 'Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor.' Truman Capote
Livre culte dans le monde entier, Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur raconte l'histoire d'Atticus Finch, jeune avocat, qui élève seul ses deux enfants Jem et Scout. Lorsqu'il est commis d'office pour la défense d'un homme noir accusé d'avoir violé une femme blanche, la vie de la petite famille bascule. Nous sommes dans les années 1930, dans une petite ville de l'Alabama et certaines vérités peuvent être dangereuses à démontrer...
Grâce au talent de Fred Fordham (notamment découvert en France grâce à Nightfall, paru chez Delcourt), ce roman graphique donne une nouvelle vie au chef d'oeuvre d'Harper Lee. L'illustrateur a exploré les lieux qui ont compté pour la mythique auteure américaine en se plongeant dans sa vie afin de s'approcher au plus près de son imaginaire. Fred Fordham offre un éclairage inédit du texte avec ce magnifique ouvrage qui renforce encore la modernité de l'oeuvre de Lee. Couronné par le prix Pulitzer en 1961, Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur est l'un des plus grands classiques de la littérature du xxème siècle.
Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Isabelle Stoïanov, relu et actualisé par Isabelle Hausser
Ce cahier consommable accompagne les élèves dans la lecture de l'oeuvre intégrale To Kill a Mockingbird de Harper Lee au programme de la spécialité LLCER anglais 1re > Des repères sur l'auteur et le contexte historique, politique et social > Une lecture découpée de l'oeuvre, avec des extraits accompagnés d'un questionnement de compréhension et d'un travail spécifique sur la langue, dont un entraînement spécifique à la traduction > Des tâches intermédiaires pour réinvestir > Un livret pédagogique téléchargeable gratuitement sur le site compagnon pour l'enseignant
Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her fathers attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood. An instant classic.
After To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, Harper Lee set aside Go Set a Watchman, and never returned to it. The original manuscript of the novel was considered to have been lost until the autumn of 2014, when Tonja Carter discovered it in a secure location where it had been affixed to an original typescript of To Kill a Mockingbird.
"This gorgeously rendered graphic-novel version provides a new perspective for old fans but also acts as an immersive introduction for youngsters as well as any adult who somehow missed out on the iconic story set in Maycomb, Alabama."-- USA Today A beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee's beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic, voted America's best-loved novel in PBS's Great American Read. "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement. Now, this most beloved and acclaimed novel is reborn for a new age as a gorgeous graphic novel. Scout, Jem, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, are all captured in vivid and moving illustrations by artist Fred Fordham. Enduring in vision, Harper Lee's timeless novel illuminates the complexities of human nature and the depths of the human heart with humor, unwavering honesty, and a tender, nostalgic beauty. Lifetime admirers and new readers alike will be touched by this special visual edition that joins the ranks of the graphic novel adaptations of A Wrinkle in Time and The Alchemist .
Go Set a Watchman is Harper Lee's earliest known novel. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014,and is now published for the first time. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman is set during an era of rapid change and significant progress in Civil Rights legislation, and it engages with questions of racial equality and justice that are still at the forefront of our national conversation.>
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidding nearby. Her brother, Jem, and her friend, Dill, want to make Boo come outside.
Her story is about justice. When Scout's father, a lawyer, agrees to defend a black man against an accusation by a white girl, he must battle the prejudice of the whole town.
It's about imagination - not just the kind you need for childhood games. Because you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
