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Ranked #3 in Academia, Ranked #8 in Loneliness — see more rankings.
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... more
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Simon Winchester It is a story of intellectual determination and the ability of a man to find love simply in what he does. It is a book about love of learning. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Stoner is ranked in the following categories:
- #20 in Adultery
- #49 in American
- #45 in American Literature
- #19 in Americana
- #37 in Existential
- #63 in Roman
- #41 in Stoicism