William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteento study agriculture. Later, he becomes a teacher. He marriesthe wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death hiscolleagues remember him rarely.
Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, thisnovel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of theconflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that passunrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of anindividual life. A reading experience like no other, itself apaean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.