Stoner
by John Williams
Hardcover
Pages 288 pages
Published 1965
Audiobook 9h 46m
Languages English, Arabic, Catalan +17
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Stoner
by John Williams
Publisher's Summary
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 ha…
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Weighted Score
4.36 out of 5.0
Bayesian Score Formula
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R (Avg Rating): 4.40 ★
v (Ratings Count): 730
C (Catalog Average): 3.89 ★
m (Min Weight Threshold): 50
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Hardcover Avg: 4.40
True Ratings 730
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