William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.\nJohn Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

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JOHN, WILLIAMS

Vintage

Bringing Calculus to Life (Computer Software Version)

Reference

Robert Decker

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson Higher Education

Life Cycle of a Frog (Picture Puffin Fact Books)

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Puffin UK

Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains: Improving Food Security

Routledge

Annales Cambriæ (Classic Reprint)

History

Europe

Forgotten Books

Screw Work, Let's Play ePub eBook: How to Do What You Love and Get Paid for It

Pearson

Annales Cambriae (Classic Reprint)

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FRANCE: SUMMER, 1940 (HISTORY OF 2ND WORLD WAR S.)

Macdonald

Art without Boundaries: 1950-70

THAMES HUDSON LTD

In AD 610, an Arab merchant called Muhammad founded a new religion called Islam. His teachings inspired the Arab peoples, and by 750 Muslims (followers of Islam) had conquered an area stretching from Afghanistan to AL ANDALUS in southern Spain. Trade, science, and culture thrived in this Islamic empire. Newly conquered lands were united by Islam, and by common tax systems, coinage, and laws. Jews and Christians sometimes paid higher taxes, but they were free to run their own religious affairs so long as they did not insult the Prophet Muhammad. Islam brought a new sense of unity and purpose to the traders and tribespeople of the Arabian Peninsula. Led by the CALIPH, Arab armies spread Islam in the Middle East and beyond. It helped that their main enemies, the Sassanids in Iran and the Byzantines in eastern Europe, were weakened by fighting each other. Islam was also spread by Muslim traders.

Themes of Islamic Civilization

World

Univ. of California Press

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