Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.

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 has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a proper family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.

John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky.

In his National Book Award-winning 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, fired up by Emerson to seek an original relation to nature, drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.

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 has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a proper family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.

John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

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 and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master.

Transport yourself to the magical world of Harry Potter with this stunning collector's edition piano anthology featuring an exclusive, bespoke cover by MinaLima, the graphic design studio behind the Wizarding World, with special gold foiling and a treasure trove of magical illustrations. This ultimate collection of Harry Potter piano music makes the perfect gift for pianists and Potterheads alike! The Harry Potter Piano Anthology contains 56 of the biggest and best musical themes from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films, arranged for intermediate level piano. From the best-loved John Williams tunes Hedwig's Theme and Harry's Wondrous World to The Crimes of Grindelwald and Dumbledore's Theme from the Fantastic Beasts films, this book has been created for pianists to enjoy and return to again and again.

(Piano Solo Composer Collection). Over 40 beautiful piano solo arrangements of beloved John Williams themes, including: Theme from Angela's Ashes * Cantina Band * Catch Me If You Can * Theme from E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial) * Harry's Wondrous World * Hedwig's Theme * Hymn to the Fallen * The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) * Theme from Jaws * Theme from Jurassic Park * The March from 1941 * The Mission Theme * Olympic Fanfare and Theme * Raiders March * Rey's Theme * Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra * Theme from Schindler's List * Somewhere in My Memory * Sophie's Theme * Star Wars (Main Theme) * With Malice Toward None * and more.

Stoner author John Williams's first novel is a searing look at a man's relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one's life

John Williams's first novel is a brooding psychological noir. Arthur Maxley is a young man at the end of his emotional rope. Having dropped out of college, he's holed up in a big-city hotel, living off an allowance from his family, feeling nothing but alone and doing nothing but drinking to forget it. What's brought him to this point? Something is troubling him, something is haunting him, something he cannot bring himself either to face or to turn away from. And now his father has come to town, a hail-fellow-well-met kind of guy. They've been estranged for years, and yet Arthur wants to meet--and so he does, reeling away from the encounter for a night of drinking and dancing and a final reckoning with the traumatizing past that readers will not soon forget.

This edition of Nothing but the Night includes an interview with Nancy Gardner Williams, the author's widow.

With the Harry Potter film series now complete, Alfred Music and Warner Bros. Entertainment are proud to present easy piano arrangements from the eight epic films together in one collectible volume. For the first time ever, 37 sheet music selections by John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Alexandre Desplat are collected along with eight pages of color stills from The Sorcerer's Stone to The Deathly Hallows, Part 2. By popular request, Leaving Hogwarts from The Sorcerer's Stone appears in print in this collection for the first time. It's a perfect gift for pianists of all ages who love the music of Harry Potter. Titles: Diagon Alley * Family Portrait * Harry's Wondrous World * Hedwig's Theme * Leaving Hogwarts * Nimbus 2000 * Voldemort * The Chamber of Secrets * Fawkes the Phoenix * Buckbeak's Flight * Double Trouble * Hagrid the Professor * Harry in Winter * Hogwarts March * Potter Waltz * This Is the Night * Dumbledore's Army * Fireworks * Loved Ones and Leaving * Professor Umbridge * Dumbledore's Farewell * Harry and Hermione * In Noctem * When Ginny Kissed Harry * Farewell to Dobby * Godric's Hollow Graveyard * Harry and Ginny * Obliviate * Ron Leaves * Snape to Malfoy Manor * Courtyard Apocalypse * Harry's Sacrifice * Lily's Lullaby * Lily's Theme * A New Beginning * Severus and Lily * Statues.

For the first time, a collected edition of the major works of John Williams, including the acclaimed novel Butcher's Crossing, now a major motion picture starring Nicholas Cage

John Williams's three major works have come to be recognized as modern American classics and are collected in this Library of America volume for the first time.

In Butcher's Crossing, he unsettles the conventions of the Western novel to tell the haunting story of a buffalo hunting expedition that exposes the savagery and greed behind the myth of the frontier.

In Stoner, he portrays power politics in academe and the quiet heroism of a midwestern English professor dedicated to the honest and dogged pursuit of his craft.

In Augustus, set in ancient Rome, Williams again takes on the subject of power--more particularly, in the author's own words, the ambivalence between the public necessity and the private want or need.

Rounding out the volume are three essays by Williams on writing fiction and his speech upon accepting the National Book Award for Augustus in 1973.

(Beginning Piano Solo Songbook). 14 of Williams' most beloved themes from movies arranged so even beginning pianists can sound great, including: Harry's Wondrous World * Hymn to the Fallen * The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) * Theme from Jaws * Theme from Jurassic Park * Raiders March * Rey's Theme * Theme from Schindler's List * Star Wars (Main Theme) * and more.

John Francis (Jack) Williams was one of the most successful of the media barons who helped shape Australia in the twentieth century. In six short years, Jack expanded the reach of the Melbourne-based The Herald and Weekly Times (The HWT) across most of Australia. After Jack's death, Rupert Murdoch was to benefit considerably from this early success of The HWT group in constructing his own global media empire.

In this short biography of Jack Williams, his son, John Irven Williams, traces the factors which led to Jack's phenomenal success, as well as to his virtual disappearance from Australia's media history until very recently. The seeds of both lay in Jack's personality and his dysfunctional early life.

(Piano Solo Songbook). Get ready for adventurous travels on the keyboard with this great new collection of ten favorite themes from the Indiana Jones series of films. Each theme is transcribed for intermediate to advanced piano solo, and has been approved by John Williams! Titles include works from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Raiders March, Marion's Theme) * Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Short Round's Theme, Parade of the Slave Children) * Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra, The Keeper of the Grail) * Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (The Adentures of Mutt, Irina's Theme) * Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Helena's Theme, Archimedes' Tomb).

Introduced in the very first Harry Potter movie, Hedwig's Theme has been featured in each installment of the cinematic franchise. The magical and wizard-like melody is a favorite of all Harry Potter fans, young and old. This arrangement is set in traditional five-finger style, with the melody split between the hands, and without a key signature in the student part. Dotted quarter notes, triplets and sixteenth notes have been avoided. An optional duet accompaniment is provided for a fuller, richer musical experience.

(Easy Guitar). 14 selections from all seven Star Wars films, arranged and approved by John Williams for easy guitar. Includes: Across the Stars * Cantina Band * Duel of the Fates * Han Solo and the Princess * The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) * The Jedi Steps and Finale * Luke and Leia * March of the Resistance * May the Force Be with You * Princess Leia's Theme * Rey's Theme * Star Wars (Main Theme) * The Throne Room (And End Title) * Yoda's Theme.

With the Harry Potter film series now complete, Alfred Music and Warner Bros. Entertainment are proud to present big note piano arrangements from the eight epic films together in one collectible volume. For the first time ever, 36 sheet music selections by John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Alexandre Desplat are collected along with eight pages of color stills from The Sorcerer's Stone to The Deathly Hallows, Part 2. By popular request, Leaving Hogwarts from The Sorcerer's Stone appears in print in this collection for the first time. It's a perfect gift for pianists of all ages who love the music of Harry Potter. Titles: Diagon Alley * Family Portrait * Harry's Wondrous World * Hedwig's Theme * Leaving Hogwarts * Nimbus 2000 * Voldemort * The Chamber of Secrets * Fawkes the Phoenix * Buckbeak's Flight * Double Trouble * Hagrid the Professor * Harry in Winter * Hogwarts March * Potter Waltz * This Is the Night * Dumbledore's Army * Fireworks * Loved Ones and Leaving * Professor Umbridge * Dumbledore's Farewell * Harry and Hermione * In Noctem * When Ginny Kissed Harry * Farewell to Dobby * Godric's Hollow Graveyard * Harry and Ginny * Obliviate * Ron Leaves * Snape to Malfoy Manor * Courtyard Apocalypse * Harry's Sacrifice * Lily's Lullaby * Lily's Theme * Severus and Lily * Statues.

(Organ Folio). A baker's dozen of John Williams' masterful themes for Star Wars movies in grand arrangements for organ: Across the Stars (Love Theme from Attack of the Clones ) * Cantina Band * Duel of the Fates * Farewell and the Trip * The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) * Luke and Leia * March of the Resistance * May the Force Be with You * Princess Leia's Theme * Rey's Theme * Star Wars (Main Theme) * The Throne Room (And End Title) * Yoda's Theme.

Step into a world of yarn, creativity, and holiday magic with The Christmas Forest: Crafting Your Way to a Cozy Christmas Wonderland. This enchanting crochet book invites you to embark on a crafting adventure like no other, as it guides you through the process of creating a charming forest of crochet Christmas trees.

Discover the joy of crocheting with our comprehensive Crochet Basics section, perfect for both beginners and experienced crafters. You'll learn about materials, essential stitches, and handy techniques, ensuring your crochet journey is smooth and enjoyable.

In Christmas Trees Patterns, you'll find a stunning array of tree designs, from adorable Amigurumi Christmas Trees to elegant Cream Christmas Trees. With detailed step-by-step instructions and helpful images, you can craft your way to a magical holiday season. Whether you're decorating your tree, gifting ornaments, or enhancing your holiday decor, The Christmas Forest will help you infuse your home with warmth and festive cheer. Get ready to crochet your way to a cozy Christmas wonderland!

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