William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture.
Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass un.
Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value.
His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.
He marries the wrong woman.
Stoner becomes a teacher.
A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father\'s farm.
William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture