John Williams

"Arcydzieło literatury światowej! Powieść na tyle uniwersalna, że stała się światowym bestsellerem 20 lat po śmierci autora!"Ta książka zasługuje na miano klasyki". The GuardianWilliam Stoner urodził się u schyłku XIX wieku w ubogiej rodzinie z Missouri. Wysłany do stanowego uniwersytetu, by studiować agronomię, miast tego zakochuje się w...

Arcydzieło literatury światowej! Powieść na tyle uniwersalna, że stała się światowym bestsellerem 20 lat po śmierci autora!"Ta książka zasługuje na miano klasyki". The GuardianWilliam Stoner urodził się u schyłku XIX wieku w ubogiej rodzinie z Missouri. Wysłany do stanowego uniwersytetu, by studiować agronomię, miast tego zakochuje się w...

The Philosophy of Michael BratmanMichael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology. This is a collection of critical essays by some of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished figures, including Margaret Gilbert, Richard Holton,...

WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming...

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 scholars life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of...

In his National Book Awardwinning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, red up by Emerson to seek ';an original relation to nature,' drops out of Harvard...