No library's complete without the classics This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects some of the most popular works of legendary humorist and novelist Mark Twain. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.Show more Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. 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. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Have you read it yet? William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe.
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In this review I will first look at the content of the text, its tone, and its intention as Thucydides states it. However, scholars such as Gilpin (1984), who argues that the history is indeed located in the realist tradition, oppose this view and defend the realist possession of Thucydides. Welch (2003), Garst (1989), and others have argued that Thucydides has been hijacked and used as a mouthpiece to express and justify views that he not only didn’t imply in his work, but may have outright disagreed with. Recently however, certain scholars have begun to doubt the realist commandeering of this ancient writing. Indeed, while reading his History of the Peloponnesian War, it is not hard to see how so many theorists have appropriated his work as an example of the everlasting realist qualities inherent in politics. Thucydides is often cited as the father of realism in International Relations. The second half of the book changes the whole tone of the novel. From this point on, Enid disappears from Claude’s life entirely and again he feels lost. She decides to leave Nebraska to care for her ill-ridden sister, a missionary in China. Enid grows enamored with the temperance movement, women’s issues, and international Christian missionary work. Claude strikes up a romance with a local girl named Enid Royce when she cares for him while he recovers from an illness, and they are eventually married, though they quickly become emotionally distant from one another. Claude takes over management of the Wheeler Ranch in Nebraska. He is forced to return home when his father launches a new ranching venture in Colorado. Claude is sent to college at a Christian school, Temple College, only to transfer to the State University in Lincoln, where he thoroughly enjoys his studies but he still feels out of place. However, his father’s success has left Claude feeling purposeless. His mother is a devoutly pious Christian woman. 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