Stoner

<p><b>A beautiful hardback edition of the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan</b><br><br><b>'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby</b><br><br><b>'A terrific novel of echoing sadness' Julian Barnes</b><br><br><b>VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Beautiful editions of great books to last a lifetime</b></p> <p><b>A beautiful hardback edition of the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan</b><br><br><b>'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby</b><br><br><b>'A terrific novel of echoing sadness' Julian Barnes</b><br><br><b>VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Beautiful editions of great books to last a lifetime</b></p>