John Williams
Born
in Clarksville, Texas, The United States
August 29, 1922
Died
March 03, 1994
Genre
Stoner
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21 editions
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published
1965
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Butcher's Crossing
90 editions
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published
1960
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Augustus
46 editions
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published
1972
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Nothing But the Night
37 editions
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published
1948
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English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson
9 editions
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published
1963
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Collected Novels: Butcher’s Crossing / Stoner / Augustus
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The Necessary Lie
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1965
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The broken landscape: Poems
2 editions
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1949
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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
October 2023 Revisit the Shelf
Stoner by John Williams (1965) 288 pages
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860), 579 pages
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958) 209 pages
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) 326 pages,
The Odyssey by Homer (800) 541 pages
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1625), 1026 pages,
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (1985) 263 pages
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