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What an strangely captivating and excellent book this was! The book follows the life of William Stoner, or "Willy" as his beloved(?!) Edith referred to him as, from his humble beginnings as the son of dirt poor farmers to his final breath after a long career as a university professor at the University of Missouri. Stoner's life was not overly notable, and probably fairly commonplace for a person living in the early to mid twentieth century. Stoner never traveled far from where he grew up and had
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This is the story of a life. William Stoner is a farmer's son who attends a Missouri university in the early 1900s with the intention of taking the agricultural course and returning to the farm. He falls in love with literature and never leaves the university, attending the graduate school and eventually becoming a professor. He marries, becomes a father, makes mistakes, questions his decisions and ponders his purpose in life from time to time. He's stoic and principled; sometimes I wanted to c
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