John Williams 
Stoner 
A Novel

This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor is one of the great rediscovered modern classics.
 »A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life » Ian Mc Ewan
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.
 »A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel » Nick Hornby
 »A terrific novel of echoing sadness » Julian Barnes