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Stoner

John Williams

1965 288 pages Rubenstein domestic fiction, psychological fiction ISBN 3862312801 Read in 2021 1 Jan 2021 – 5 Jan 2021

"Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to m