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Vanessa Vaile on 18 Apr 14about campus novel, John Williams' 1965 novel Stoner John Williams' forgotten classic, Stoner, resonates especially now that the ideals its characters hold-the university as refuge for the sensitive, inquisitive types-have been so thoroughly crushed. The danger Stoner perceived was of allowing those who didn't truly value learning to infiltrate university life. Forty years later, the university is no longer a refuge for the dispossessed, but an engine of dispossession. Most scholars, after a long and expensive struggle in pursuit of pure learning, are returned to the world after all.