The Confessions of Nat Turner

Novel by วิลเลียม สไตรอน

Blurb

The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by U.S. writer William Styron. Presented as a first-person narrative by historical figure Nat Turner, the novel concerns the slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. It is based on The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831.
Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

First Published

1967

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