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Stoner (novel)
''Stoner'' is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 2003 by Vintage and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern.〔John Williams, ''Stoner'', New York Review Books, New York, 2003.〕
''Stoner'' has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel.〔(The Academic Novel and the Academic Ideal: John Williams' ''Stoner'' ). Steve Wiegenstein. The McNeese Review. 1990.〕 Throughout the 200-word prologue and 200-page novel, ''Stoner'' follows the undistinguished life and career of William Stoner, an English professor at a Midwestern university.
==Plot==
The central character, William Stoner, begins as a farm boy in Missouri whose parents send him to the University of Missouri to major in agriculture. After reading Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 and influenced by his instructor, Archer Sloane, Stoner changes his major to literature and pursues a master of arts. After receiving his Ph.D. during World War I, Stoner continues at the university as an assistant professor of English, the position he held for the duration of his career. The novel follows 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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