Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
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Rough cut, else contents appear as new, unread & unblemished in fine black cloth covered, gold gilt, boards. DJ displays moderate surface/edge/wear, as shown, with repaired closed chipping.
Styron's "Confessions" delves deep into the psychology behind Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt. Almost unbearable in its graphic violence and Biblically-dimensioned heartbreak, the novel has Turner telling the whole story in painfully honest detail. Styron neither defends Turner nor paints him as crazy; he is less interested in pointing out right or wrong than in trying to understand the broad ironies of the system of slavery and its effects on the people who ran it and were subject to it. Styron's Nat Turner is a man who is both educated and destroyed by his masters; he is both uplifted and misled by the Bible. His hatred is not fueled by the hatred of whites, but by the pity of whites. And when he kills, he is only able to commit one physical murder, though he takes responsibility for 60.
First edition of Styron's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, one of the most controversial works of the post-war era – the Story of a Negro preacher, who, in 1831, felt himself to be divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region
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Synopsis
The Confessions of Nat Turner is the title of two books: The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrections in Southampton, Va. , an 1831 book written after Nat Turner's trial by his lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), a 1967 novel by William Styron
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- Title
- Confessions of Nat Turner
- Author
- William Styron
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed, 1st Prtg
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- 428
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- History, anti slavery.
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