The Confessions of Nat Turner (Pulitzer Prize 1968)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976. Reissue. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Dewey, Kenneth Francis. A few tiny spots on front board and minor blemish on fore edge, otherwise an excellent copy. 1976 Full-Leather. xvi, 428 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, two-panel illustration preceding title page, frontispiece, and illustrations in text by Kenneth Francis Dewey. 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by U.S. writer William Styron presented as a first-person narrative by historical figure Nat Turner, based on the slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. 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.