There's no better time to appreciate his stories, or read them for the very first time. The new, complete, and uncensored version of his autobiography hitting bestseller lists or the removal of certain controversial language from one of his novels, his name and his legacy remain a topic of conversation-and undoubtedly will for years to come. Mark Twain wrote his greatest works more than one hundred years ago, but he's never far from the minds of Americans. 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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