Read the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years
ISBN:
9780099561545
Author:
John Williams
Page:
288
Binding:
Soft cover
Publication date:
2012
Format:
Book
Publisher:
VINTAGE BOOKS
Language:
English
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Description
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.