Stoner
Edition: Vintage Classics edition (40)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780099561545
Copyright date: 1965, 2003
First sentence: This book is dedicated to my friends and former colleagues in the Department of English at the University of Missouri.
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.

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Notes: UK Edition