William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen.
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Stoner
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by John Williams
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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.
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domestic fiction, psychological fiction, Literature, Fiction, Study and teaching, College teachers, Adultery, English teachers, Marital conflict, campus, academic, College teachers, fiction, Missouri, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, psychological, Middle west, fiction, Littérature, Romans, nouvelles, Étude et enseignement, Professeurs d'anglais, Conflits conjugauxShowing 9 featured editions. View all 46 editions?
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Stoner: Roman
2014, Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl., Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
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"This book is dedicated to my friends and former colleagues in the Department of English at the University of Missouri."
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Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 1972 by Pocket Books, in 2003 by Vintage and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern.
Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel. Stoner follows the life of the eponymous William Stoner, his undistinguished career and workplace politics, marriage to his wife, Edith, affair with his colleague, Katherine, and his love and pursuit of literature.
Despite receiving little attention upon its publication in 1965, Stoner has seen a sudden surge of popularity and critical praise since its republication in the 2000s.
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