Today, get a sneak preview of one of the most highly anticipated novels of all time, Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman.
That’s right, you can go to the Wall Street Journal or the Guardian and read the very first chapter online now. Or listen to Reese Witherspoon narrate it, your choice.
Per the Journal, the book has a fascinating history and was originally passed on:
“In 1957, when she was 31 years old, Harper Lee submitted her first attempt at a novel to the publisher J.B. Lippincott.
“Titled Go Set a Watchman, it was set in the ’50s and opened with a woman named Jean Louise Finch returning home to Alabama. Ms. Lee’s editor found the story lacking but, seizing on flashback scenes, suggested that she write instead about her protagonist as a young girl. The result was a Pulitzer Prize-winning classic: To Kill a Mockingbird.”
The novel, out Tuesday, is already the No. 1 selling book on Amazon and preorders have made the most preordered book on the site since J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, according to an Amazon rep.
