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An edition of Stoner (1965)

Stoner

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Né pauvre dans une ferme du Missouri en 1891, le jeune William Stoner est envoyé à l’université par son père – et au prix de quels sacrifices –, pour y étudier l’agronomie. Délaissant peu à peu ses cours de traitement des sols, ce garçon solitaire découvre les auteurs, la poésie et le monde de l’esprit.

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French
Pages
384

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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 conjugaux

People

William Stoner Charles Walker Hollis Lomax Katherine Driscoll

Places

American Midwest Columbia University of Missouri

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Stoner
2015, Natur & kultur
in Swedish - 1. pocketutg.
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Stoner
2014, Polirom
Paperback in Romanian - Biblioteca Polirom
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Stoner
2014, Natur & kultur
in Swedish - 1. utg.
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Profesor Stoner
2014, Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga
in Polish
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Stoner: Roman
2014, Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl., Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
in German
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Stoner
2014, Baile del Sol
in Spanish
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Stoner
2012, Vintage Books
Paperback in English - Vintage Classics edition (40)
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Stoner
2011, le dillettante
Hardcover in French
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Stoner
2006, New York Review Books
Paperback in English - printing (16)
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Stoner
2006, New York Review Books
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Published in
Paris, France
Copyright Date
1965, 2011
Translation Of
Stoner

Contributors

Translator
Anna Gavalda

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
384

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26424291M
ISBN 10
2842636449
ISBN 13
9782842636449
OCLC/WorldCat
758496522
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2842636449
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12433204

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OL3511459W

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William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.

John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

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William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen.
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