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    Darkness Visible

    William Styron

    This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by…

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    Lie Down In Darkness

    William Styron

    In this novel, the South looms dark and ominous in the background with its Biblical rhetoric, its conflict between a tradition of religious fundamentalism and modern scepticism, racial contrasts and…

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    The Private War of William Styron

    Mary Wakefield Buxton

    Returning to his childhood home in Virginia for the funeral of his stepmother, Elizabeth Buxton Styron, acclaimed writer William Styron finds himself plunged into boyhood reminiscence. He is Billy again…

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    Sophie’s Choice

    William Styron

    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. Ultimately, he…

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    William Styron

    Melvin J. Friedman

    Examines the broad and far-ranging sympathies of this versatile and least parochial of contemporary American writers.

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    The Achievement of William Styron

    Robert K. Morris,Irving Malin

    Originally published in 1975, The Achievement of William Styron was the first collection of critical essays on one of America’s most distinguished contemporary fiction writers, and it has become a…

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    Rereading William Styron

    Gavin Cologne-Brookes

    The first critical study of William Styron since his death in 2006, Rereading William Styron offers an eloquent reflection on the writer’s works, world, and character. Gavin Cologne-Brookes combines personal…

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    Conversations with William Styron

    A selection of interviews with William Styron published during the period 1951 to 1984, from the months just following publication of his first novel, to the period after publication of…

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    Selected Letters of William Styron

    William Styron

    Covering a career that spanned almost 60 years and many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this collection pulls back the curtain and provides readers with…

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    The Critical Response to William Styron

    Daniel Ross

    This text traces the critical reception of the writings of William Styron since the 1950s. All of Styron’s novels are covered, with an emphasis on Lie Down in Darkness…

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    The Private War of William Styron

    Mary Wakefield Buxton

    Returning to his childhood home in Virginia for the funeral of his stepmother, Elizabeth Buxton Styron, acclaimed writer William Styron finds himself plunged into boyhood reminiscence. He is Billy again…

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    Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays

    William Styron

    After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together…

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    The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps

    William Styron

    The Suicide Run collects five of William Styron’s meticulously rendered narratives based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. In Blankenship, Styron draws on his stint as a guard…

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    The Long March and In the Clap Shack

    William Styron

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    This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings

    William Styron

    Essays discuss American history, slavery, the Holocaust, prisons, the military, and American authors.

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    This Quiet Dust

    William Styron

    In This Quiet Dust, the first book of non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-wining author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie’s Choice, William Styron addresses great moral issues with passion…

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    A Tidewater Morning

    William Styron

    Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, this collection explores death, loss, war and racism.

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    The Suicide Run

    William Styron

    The five personal and intensely powerful tales that make up this collection draw upon William Styron’s real-life experiences in the US Marine Corps, and give us an insight into the…

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    Lie Down in Darkness

    William Styron

    As Milton Loftis follows the hearse in which his beautiful daughter, Peyton, is being carried to the grave, a story unfolds about the degeneration of a tormented Southern family submerged…

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    A Tidewater Morning

    William Styron

    Three stories detail a former slave’s return to his birthplace, the impact of war on personal relationships, and a mother’s death, all viewed through the eyes of a youth in…

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    Set This House on Fire

    William Styron

    The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter -…

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    The Long March

    William Styron

    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…

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    The Confessions of Nat Turner

    William Styron

    Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.

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    Set This House on Fire

    William Styron

    The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead.

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    Sophie’s Choice

    William Styron

    In this ambitious bestseller (made into a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep), Styron tells of a young Southerner who wants to become a writer; of the turbulent love-hate affair…

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    Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

    William Styron

    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…

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    The Confessions of Nat Turner

    William Styron

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE 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…

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    Depression: Vintage Minis

    William Styron

    How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, he describes…

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    A Study Guide for William Styron’s Darkness Visible

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    A Study Guide for William Styron’s Darkness Visible, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

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    A Study Guide for William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

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    Das Vaterbild in Ausgewaehlten Romanen William Styrons

    Sabine Krome

    Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral-Universiteat Freiburg i. Br., 1988).

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    William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice: Crime and Self-Punishment

    Rhoda Sirlin

    Although Sophie’s Choice by William Styron won the American Book Award for fiction, it met with some very mixed reviews. Some critics regarded the novel as bombastic and melodramatic-in short…

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    William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond

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    From Here to Eternity: A Novel

    James Jones

    The completely restored, unexpurgated version of Jones’ classic novel of war, just in time for the 60th anniversary of its National Book Award for fiction in 1962. With the help…

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    William Styron - American Writers 98: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers

    Richard Pearce

    William Styron - American Writers 98 was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…

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    Letters to My Father

    Styron, William,Rose Styron

    From 1943 to 1953, William Styron wrote over one hundred letters to William C. Styron, Sr, detailing his adventures, his works in progress, and his ruminations on the craft of…

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    Dying Without God: Francois Mitterrand’s Meditations on Living and Dying

    Franz-Olivier Giesbert

    Is one ever truly ready to face death? Can one, without faith, view death as a beginning rather than an end? Francois Mitterrand is the man dying without God, and…

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    Transforming the Rebel Self: Quest Patterns in Fiction by William Styron, Flannery O'Connor and Bobbie Ann Mason

    Sharon Therese Nemeth

    In pursuit of selfhood, the non-conformist hero of the Post-World War II American South sets out on an uncertain path leading to confrontation and finally transformation. This study examines William…

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    My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

    William Styron

    From his literary emergence in the 1950s to his death in 2006 at age 81, William Styron laid himself bare on the page at every turn. Including significant previously uncollected…

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