Featured Speaker: Mary Thompson
The class will be reading and discussing Stoner: A Novel, by John Williams, published in 1965 (ISBN: 978-1590171998).
William Stoner was a lifelong academic who entered The University of Missouri in 1910 as a farm boy studying agriculture and went on to teach there until his death in 1956. Required to take a class in English literature, something happened within him: an epiphany rooted less in a moment of understanding than of not understanding. He realized that there is something out there which, if he can seize it, will unlock not just literature but life itself. When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing. Yet this quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor whose life became a parable of solitude and anguish eventually found an admiring audience. With each American reissue and when a Dutch publisher produced a translation in 2013, Stoner has been published in 21 countries and has sold over a million copies.
July 9: Chapters 1–4
July 23: Chapters 5–9
August 6: Chapters 10–13
August 20: Chapters 14–17
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