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The Confessions of Nat Turner: Pulitzer Prize Winner Paperback – November 10, 1992

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The story that inspired the major motion picture The Birth of a Nation (2016)

In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...

The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.

The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.

The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.
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    Vintage
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    November 10, 1992
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    5.23 x 1.01 x 7.91 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0679736638
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0679736639
  8. Lexile measure
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"In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...
The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.

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Set in 1831, The Confessions Of Nat Turner tells--in his own words--of a black man who awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. His name is Nat Turner and he is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that 'peculiar institution.'

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Reissue edition (November 10, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679736638
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679736639
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1450L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.23 x 1.01 x 7.91 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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William Styron (1925-2006) , a native of the Virginia Tidewater, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His books include Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice, This Quiet Dust, Darkness Visible, and A Tidewater Morning. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the Legion d'Honneur, and the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. With his wife, the poet and activist Rose Styron, he lived for most of his adult life in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he is buried.

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Devin T.
5.0 out of 5 stars great read
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I enjoyed this book. As a person who enjoys history this book was a great read for me and the author gives an in depth vision on the trial.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A difficult book that must be read
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This is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by William Styron (the author of Sophie’s Choice). It is based on a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831, lead by Nate Turner. Turner’s capture and confession is the basis of this book.

The novel is told in a 1st person narrative and is largely the work of Styron’s imagination. While it is brilliantly written Styron does include graphic scenes of highly erotic obsessions with various white women and one of the most vivid homosexual encounters in modern literature. Probably because of these scenes Styron was savaged by many of the leading black artists of the day but the book has endured the criticism and is, in many ways, an American Classic.

Slavery is an indelible stain on the fabric of American culture. It will never be washed away. Turner is an aesthetic, a religious fanatic, a brilliant, tormented misanthropic, homicidal nihilist. His band of followers slaughters 52 men, women, and children. In retribution the white slaughter 200 blacks. Turner is captured, interrogated, and executed. Instead of inspiring a region wide uprising, he is brought down by his fellow blacks fighting alongside the plantation owners.

It is a difficult book to read but it is a book that really should be read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars “The Confessions of Nat Turner” William Styron, 1966 Compelling ...
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“The Confessions of Nat Turner” William Styron, 1966
Compelling is the word that comes to mind. This is a work of fiction based upon the actual event of Turners 1831 bloody insurrection. It is my option that a reasonably accurate portrayal of slave life and slave/slave owner relationships is presented. I will say that for my own part that, most of the time I was rooting for Nat. I don’t know that I have a clear understanding of Nat’s hatred except in the obvious; except for his education, why was his hatred so deep as to cause him to this violence? (In an afterword, Styron states that he believes Nat was insane but that in his novel he did not want an insane Nat) A thought that I had as I read the accounting was what if Turner had directed his energies toward educating other slaves? (Of course this would have been illegal but Nat’ owmer educated him.)
A compelling read and I’m giving it
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating read
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Read this years ago. Enjoying in more today. Complex story told very well.
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Book arrived early and in very good condition, as advertised!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary Chronicle of an Avenging Warrior
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I purchased this book, although I had read this several years ago. My interest to revisit the novel was aroused when I read The Good Lord Bird and viewed the series. There are strong parallels in the struggles and the motivations explored in these works. Styron is a talented writer who makes this history come alive and gather relevance. The brutal consequences of an impossible circumstance lives on through this century as the legacy of slavery is explored in splendid literary works such as this powerful novel. I highly recommend it.
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JAMES LEACH
5.0 out of 5 stars great read
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One of the most prolific forms of doctrine discussing a great man Nat Turner my hero and one day friend
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Saloni Walia
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in India on April 25, 2017
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The pages were yellowed. I think it was a vwry old copy
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artus41
5.0 out of 5 stars Confessions of Nat Turner
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Ce livre, basé en grande partie sur les vrais témoignages recueillis pendant le procès de Nat Turner, un esclave noir rebelle en Virginie aux années 1830, est passionnant, très bien écrit.
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Archie B. Manvell
5.0 out of 5 stars a meditation on the peculiar institution
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2010
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Styrons novel "the confessions of Nat Turner" uses the most famous slave revolt in US history as the starting point for a fictionalized biography of Nat Turner and by extension black american slavery itself. He conjurs up the horrors of slavery and its banalities in a fast paced narrative that is also an evocation of the subtle beauties of the Virginia countryside. Overall Styron succeds brilliantly in recreating the peculiarities of the American past whilst providing a primer on race relations for the American present.
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ColCol
5.0 out of 5 stars Goid Novel and historixal read about Slavery
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2018
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Brilliant book, well documented, a good read. I have it to my son to read and he couldn't put it down. That's saying something.
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One of the best books I've read. The mix of fiction and nonfiction keeps your attention all the way
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