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An edition of Stoner (1965)

Stoner

6th printing

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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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New York Review Books
Language
English
Pages
278

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Subjects

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

People

William Stoner, Charles Walker, Hollis Lomax, Katherine Driscoll

Places

American Midwest, Columbia, University of Missouri

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Stoner
2015, Natur & kultur
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Profesor Stoner
2014, Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga
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Stoner
2014, Polirom
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2014, Natur & kultur
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Stoner: Roman
2014, Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl., Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
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Stoner
2014, Baile del Sol
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Stoner
2012, Vintage Books
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Stoner
2006, New York Review Books
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2006, New York Review Books
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Book Details

First Sentence

"This book is dedicated to my friends and former colleagues in the Department of English at the University of Missouri."

Edition Notes

US / CAN

Published in
New York
Series
NYRB Classics
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1965, 2003

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3545.I5286 S7 2003, PS3545.I5286 S7 2006, PS3545.I5286S7 2006, PS3545.I5286 S7 2015

Contributors

Introduction
John McGahern
Cover Art
Thomas Eakins
Cover Design
Katy Homans

The Physical Object

Format
Trade Paperback
Pagination
xiv, 278 p. ;
Number of pages
278

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL20190435M
Internet Archive
isbn_9781590171998
ISBN 10
1590171993
ISBN 13
9781590171998
LCCN
2005022751
OCLC/WorldCat
903284453, 61253892
Hathi Trust
005263184
Library Thing
169174
Goodreads
58466277

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Work Description

Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 1972 by Pocket Books, in 2003 by Vintage and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern.

Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel. Stoner follows the life of the eponymous William Stoner, his undistinguished career and workplace politics, marriage to his wife, Edith, affair with his colleague, Katherine, and his love and pursuit of literature.

Despite receiving little attention upon its publication in 1965, Stoner has seen a sudden surge of popularity and critical praise since its republication in the 2000s.

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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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