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"The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly."
The life of William Stoner, a man born to rural poverty who arrives at the University of Missouri to study Agriculture but instead falls in love with ...more
The life of William Stoner, a man born to rural poverty who arrives at the University of Missouri to study Agriculture but instead falls in love with ...more
A brilliant book, which should not to be missed.
"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another."
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The story of William Stoner, a professor of English at the University of Missouri who fails in his marriage and career ambitions, but accepts obscurity and loneliness out ...more
"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another."
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The story of William Stoner, a professor of English at the University of Missouri who fails in his marriage and career ambitions, but accepts obscurity and loneliness out ...more
A quiet novel, which makes the dramatic moments all the more devastating.
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