Literary Fiction
A Missouri farm boy becomes an English professor, enduring academic devotion, a loveless marriage, and quiet stoic solitude.
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A Missouri farm boy becomes an English professor, enduring academic devotion, a loveless marriage, and quiet stoic solitude.
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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 hi...
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Sexual content
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Non-graphic marital sex and an affair; intimacy often strained or coerced
Violence & gore
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Illness, death, and distant wars; no graphic combat or gore
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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Recurring alcohol use with addiction themes portrayed
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Academic politics; early 20th-century social norms and war backdrop
Self-harm / suicide
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Suicide and suicidal thoughts referenced
Abuse & suffering
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Marital sexual assault; emotional domestic abuse and child neglect
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