TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,John
AU  - McGahern,John
TI  - Stoner
SN  - 9780099561545
U1  - 813 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - English teachers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - College teachers
KW  - Marital conflict
KW  - Adultery
N2  - 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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