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Go Set A Watchman: SPOILERS AHEAD

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Almost everyone knows how G o Set a Watchman  got published -- Lee is now infirm and rumored to no longer be of sound mind. Her lawyer  "discovered"  this lost manuscript. In fact Watchman was a first draft of the novel that was sent to editor Tay Hohoff in 1957. Hohoff rejected the manuscript and suggested many changes and eventually all those changes and rewrites became  To Kill a Mockingbird .  Watchman  is not a sequel to  Mockingbird . It is not an alternate version. It's a first draft, and one can argue about the ethics about publishing it altogether -- would Beethoven have wanted his initial scribblings of his symphonies published and played by orchestras?