![]() The literature he encounters in this introductory course, such as Sonnet 73, opens a gateway to a new world for Stoner, and he quickly falls in love with literary studies. Stoner enters the University of Missouri, where all agriculture students must take a survey course in English literature during their sophomore year. After high school, Stoner expects to continue working on the farm, but the county agent advises that he go to agriculture school, instead. William Stoner is born on a small farm in Mid-Missouri in 1891. Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel. 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 is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. Stoner follows William Stoner's undistinguished career and workplace politics, his marriage to Edith, his affair with his colleague Katherine, and his love and pursuit of literature. ![]()
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