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John Williams
Born
in Clarksville, Texas, The United States
August 29, 1922
Died
March 03, 1994
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Stoner
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1965
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223 editions
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Butcher's Crossing
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published
1960
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6 editions
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Augustus
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published
1972
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116 editions
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Nothing But the Night
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published
1948
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37 editions
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English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson
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published
1963
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9 editions
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Collected Novels: Butcher’s Crossing / Stoner / Augustus
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The Necessary Lie
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published
1965
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The broken landscape: Poems
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published
1949
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2 editions
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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
Polls
June 2015 New School Classics Group Read
Which book would you like to read for our June 2015 New School group read?
Which book would you like to read for our June 2015 New School group read?
1947, The Plague by Albert Camus, 308 pages
1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
1958, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote, 142 pages
1989, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 637 pages
1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
1905, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 335 pages
1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, 364 pages
1941, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 84 pages
1965, Stoner by John Williams, 288 pages
1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages
1904, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages
1921, Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, 359 pages
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