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 - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.
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Stoner
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 - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.
Popular Reviews(8)
Reviewed by aesIn admiration of how at the end there was peace with everything, for him and with everyone, and how for some reason in the end for the first time that everything doesn’t matter is okay, is peace.
Reviewed by EmmaPage turning for a book where nothing happens
Reviewed by Yana Definitely one of the best books I've read so far. touching my soul so deeply, it will remain a part of me forever. it's one of those books, which changes your very way being in this world. It reminds you of the beauty of an ordinary life, of quiet moments, fragile emotions, and the depth that can be found in things that might otherwise seem small or unnoticed. There is something profoundly tender in the way it captures human experience, making the everyday feel almost sacred.
Reviewed by TommyEssentially, it's nothing more than a mundane story about a boy that became a professor. But still, it captivates you and doesn't let go until you've finished the book.
Reviewed by CharIch kann mich den tollen Rezensionen einiger meiner GR Freund*innen (zB Marion, Polen, Marlen) nur anschließen: was ein wunderbares Buch. „Stoner“ ist ein leises, feines Buch. Die Sprache von Williams ist wunderschön, unaufgeregt und doch so lyrisch und prosaisch. Die Geschichte ist tragisch, teilweise sehr deprimierend, aber echt und lebensnah und es gibt auch Glück und Zufriedenheit in ihr. Stoners Liebe zur Universität und der Wissenschaft und die Kraft und das Selbstbild, das er daraus zieht, haben mich sehr bewegt. Für mich ist dieses Buch ein Klassiker und ich hoffe, es findet seinen Weg vor allem in die Unikurse der Englischen Literatur.