Stoner /
Williams, John, 1922-1994
Stoner / John Williams ; with an introduction by John McGahern. - London : Vintage Books, 2012. - xvi, 288 p. ; 20 cm.
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.
9780099561545
English teachers--Fiction
College teachers--Fiction
Marital conflict--Fiction
Adultery--Fiction
813
Stoner / John Williams ; with an introduction by John McGahern. - London : Vintage Books, 2012. - xvi, 288 p. ; 20 cm.
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.
9780099561545
English teachers--Fiction
College teachers--Fiction
Marital conflict--Fiction
Adultery--Fiction
813