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An edition of Stoner (1965)

Stoner

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William Stoner wordt aan het einde van de negentiende eeuw geboren als zoon van een arme boerenfamilie. Tot groot verdriet van zijn ouders kiest hij voor een carrière als docent Engels. Hij wijdt zijn leven aan de literatuur en aan de liefde - en faalt op beide fronten. Zijn huwelijk met een vrouw uit een gegoede familie vervreemdt hem verder van zijn ouders, zijn carrière verloopt moeizaam en zijn vrouw en dochter keren zich tegen hem. Een nieuwe liefdesrelatie wordt verbroken om een schandaal op de universiteit te voorkomen. Stoner sterft uiteindelijk in anonimiteit, zoals ook zijn hele leven zich in de marge heeft afgespeeld.

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Lebowski
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Dutch

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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

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William Stoner Charles Walker Hollis Lomax Katherine Driscoll

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American Midwest Columbia University of Missouri

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2015, Natur & kultur
in Swedish - 1. pocketutg.
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2014, Baile del Sol
in Spanish
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2014, Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl., Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
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2014, Natur & kultur
in Swedish - 1. utg.
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2014, Polirom
Paperback in Romanian - Biblioteca Polirom
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Profesor Stoner
2014, Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga
in Polish
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2012, Vintage Books
Paperback in English - Vintage Classics edition (40)
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2012 September, Lebowski
eBook in Dutch
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2006, New York Review Books
Paperback in English - printing (16)
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2006, New York Review Books
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Published in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Copyright Date
1965, 2003, 2012
Translation Of
Stoner

Contributors

Translator
Edzard Krol
Foreword
John McGahern

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Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26424293M
ISBN 10
9048813840
ISBN 13
9789048813841
OCLC/WorldCat
910976508
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B00NMITN1O
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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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