Description
William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured. --back cover
Available Editions
paperback
New York Review Books
Published Jan 1, 2006
278 pages
ISBN: 9781590171998
paperback
Vintage Books
Published Jan 1, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 9780099561545
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First Published
1965
Language
eng
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Content and trigger warnings for Stoner by John Williams.