Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35616011

 

Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird

Go Set a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than half a century, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird…

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/03/harper-lee-new-novel-to-kill-a-mockingbird

 

 

Go Set a Watchman

is a novel by Harper Lee published on July 14, 2015, by HarperCollins in the United States and William Heinemann in the United Kingdom. Although written before her first and only other published novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird—and initially promoted by its publisher as a sequel—it is now more widely accepted as an earlier draft.^[2][3][3][4]

 

The title comes from Isaiah 21:6:

 

"For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth."^[5] It alludes to Jean Louise Finch's view of her father, Atticus Finch, as the moral compass ("watchman") of Maycomb,^[6] and has a theme of disillusionment, as she discovers the extent of the bigotry in her home community.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Set_a_Watchman

 

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Isaiah 21

Babylon is Fallen

1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. 2A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman that travails: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure has he turned into fear to me. 5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield. 6For thus has the LORD said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.

http://bibleapps.com/isaiah/21-1.htm

 

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Maranatha