The Collected Novels
Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie's Choice
Published on 21. May 2013
1918 pages
978-1-4804-3053-2 (ISBN)
Description
Four novels-including a Pulitzer Prize winner and a National Book Award winner-by the #1
New York Times-bestselling master.
Lie Down in Darkness is William Styron's stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family's tragic spiral into destruction. Set This House on Fire is a story of evil and redemption involving three American men whose paths converge on a film shoot in Italy at the close of the 1940s, hailed as "one of the finest novels of our time" by the San Francisco Chronicle.Gripping and unforgettable, The Confessions of Nat Turner is the Pulitzer-winning portrait of the leader of America's bloodiest slave revolt. And Sophie's Choice is the National Book Award-winning novel of love, survival, and regret, set in Brooklyn in the wake of the Second World War.
Taken together, these four novels-exploring themes of good and evil, sin and atonement, and the ineradicable bonds of place and family-represent Styron at the pinnacle of his literary brilliance.
Lie Down in Darkness is William Styron's stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family's tragic spiral into destruction. Set This House on Fire is a story of evil and redemption involving three American men whose paths converge on a film shoot in Italy at the close of the 1940s, hailed as "one of the finest novels of our time" by the San Francisco Chronicle.Gripping and unforgettable, The Confessions of Nat Turner is the Pulitzer-winning portrait of the leader of America's bloodiest slave revolt. And Sophie's Choice is the National Book Award-winning novel of love, survival, and regret, set in Brooklyn in the wake of the Second World War.
Taken together, these four novels-exploring themes of good and evil, sin and atonement, and the ineradicable bonds of place and family-represent Styron at the pinnacle of his literary brilliance.
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William Styron (1925-2006), born in Newport News, Virginia, was one of the greatest American writers of his generation. Styron published his first book,
Lie Down in Darkness, at age twenty-six and went on to write such influential works as the international bestseller
Sophie's Choice.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Lie Down in Darkness
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Recollection by Rose Styron
- Epigraph
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- Set This House on Fire
- Title Page
- Contents
- Part One
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Part Two
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Title Page
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Part I: Judgment Day
- Part II: Old Times Past Voices, Dreams, Recollections
- Part III: Study War
- Part IV: "It Is Done."
- AFTERWORD: Nat Turner Revisited
- Sophie's Choice
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- A Biography of William Styron
- Copyright
