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A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth by William Styron
Category: Fiction
In these stories - never before published in book form - William Styron focuses his unmatched talents on matters that have preoccupied him during much of his adult writing career. Although their immediate subjects are different - a young Marine about to invade Japan in World War II remembers the role hi ...Show more
A Tidewater Morning - Three Tales from Youth by William Styron
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In this brilliant collection of 'long short stories', the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, William Styron explores with new eloquence death, loss, war and ra ...Show more
Darkness Visible by William Styron
Category: Personal Development | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With profound insight and remarkable candor, the author tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual, hard-won recovery.
Darkness Visible by William Styron
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the ful ...Show more
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
Category: Personal Development
A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to reco ...Show more
Depression: Vintage Minis by William Styron
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to ...Show more
My GenerationCollected Nonfiction by William Styron
Category: Reference
A vital, illuminating collection of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's elegant, passionately engaged nonfictionMy Generation is the definitive gathering of William Styron's nonfiction, exposing the core of this greatly gifted, highly convivial, and profoundly serious artist from his lit ...Show more
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Category: unmapped | Series: Vintage classics
Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make.
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage War
It is the summer of 1947, and Stingo is living in a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant an ...Show more
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the hea ...Show more
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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 annihilat ...Show more