Requiem for a Nun

By: William Faulkner

Published 1981 by Penguin Books (first published 1950)

Category: Arts

Pages: 240 pages

Description:
Nancy, a negro nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby: her lawyer, Gavin Stevens, compels the mistress to confess the reason for Nancy's crime. The law takes its course; but justice, in Faulkner's sense, has been done.