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Darkness Visible by William Styron
Category: Self-Help | 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.
My GenerationCollected Nonfiction by William Styron
Category: Non-Fiction
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: 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
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Category: Fiction | 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
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
A first-person narrative that depicts a good man's transformation into an avenging angel. A Pulitzer Prize winner. In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William ...Show more
The Long March by William Styron
Category: Fiction
In the blaze of a Carolina summer, among the poison ivy and loblolly pines, eight Marines are killed almost casually by misfired mortar shells. Deciding that his battalion has been 'doping off', Colonel Templeton calls for a 36-mile forced march to inculcate discipline. The Long March is a searing accou ...Show more
Vintage Classics: Lie Down In Dakness by William Styron
Category: Fiction
Tells the story of a tormented family submerged in infidelity and driven by a vengeful love that is blocked, hurt and perverted.
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