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Characters:
 * William Stoner
 * Edith - Banker's daughter, Stoner's wife x
 * Grace - Stoner's daughter

Themes: Style: Critical Reception:
 * Archer Sloane - Stoner's mentor viii
 * Hollis Lomax - Stoner's frenemy xi
 * David Masters - stoner's friend xi
 * Gordon Finch - stoner's friend xi
 * Work - xii
 * Love - xiv
 * Plain vii
 * Clear vii
 * Intelligent vii
 * "Authoritative prose"
 * Cool/Cold (intro vii)
 * Author Ian McEwan calls Stoner a "very, very beautiful novel" and "the most extraordinary discovery".


 * According to Charlotte Heathcote of the Daily Express, Stoner 's renewed popularity was perhaps due to a "routine rejacketing by Vintage" ; however, Sarah Hampson of The Globe and Mail claims that 2006 reissue and 2011 translatioin into French sparked the book's resurgence.


 * Hampson claims that, in an era when people pursue success and fulfillment at all costs, Stoner reminds readers that what appears to be a failed life can really be noble and beautiful.


 * Williams' precise prose makes one man's emotions universally relatable.


 * Adam Foulds of the Independent says that Williams paces Stoner flawlessly - the rhythm of the narrative "flows like a river".


 * Stoner was named Waterstone's Book of the Year for 2013.