The Confessions of Nat Turner (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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STYRON, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Octavo. Full deep blue leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 428 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Random House, 1967. William Styron (1925–2006) was born in Newport News, Virginia, and spent his career as one of the major novelists of his generation — a southerner in the tradition of Faulkner who had absorbed that influence without being overwhelmed by it, and whose work ranged across the full spectrum of twentieth-century American catastrophe: slavery, the Holocaust, the civil rights movement, and the internal catastrophe of severe depression. The Confessions of Nat Turner , published in 1967, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968 and the William Dean Howells Medal, and immediately became one of the most debated novels in American literary history. Nat Turner (1800–1831) was an enslaved man in Southampton County, Virginia, who in August 1831 led the most sustained and deadly slave revolt in American history, killing approximately fifty-five white men, women, and children before being captured and hanged. The historical record available to Styron was sparse: a pamphlet dictated by Turner to his lawyer Thomas Ruffin Gray in the

• Binding: Hardcover

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