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The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story.
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Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardner's careers: in addition to his work as a novelist, Gardner was a noted professor of medieval literature and a scholar of ancient languages.
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John Gardner received wide acclaim for his novels, his collections of short stories and his critical works. He was born in Batavia, New York in 1933 and taught English, Anglo-Saxon and creative writing in Oberlin, Chico State College, San Francisco State, Southern Illinois, Bennington and SUNY-Binghamton. His books include The Art of Fiction, The Art of Living, Grendel, Jason, and Media, The Life and Times of Chaucer, Mickelsson's Ghosts, Nickel Mountain, October Light, The resurrection, The Sunlight Dialogues, Stillness and Shadows, and various books for children. He died in a motorcycle accident in 1982.
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- PublisherAndre Deutsch
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0233963421
- ISBN 13 9780233963426
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
- IllustratorEmil Antonucci
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Emil Antonucci (illustrator). Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized. Seller Inventory # mon0000109497
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GRENDEL
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Emil Antonucci (illustrator). First British Edition. 8vo, orange cloth with gold spine lettering, illustrated with frontispiece & intricate line drawings as chapter headings by Emil Antonucci, Mylar-protected blue dust jacket (unclipped) with illustration of Grendel's head by Antonucci, 174 pages. Gardner retold the classic Old English ["Viking"] story of Beowulf from the monster Grendel's grotesque perspective. A tour de force! John Gardner (1933 - 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view. A tour de force! Gardner's best-known novels include The Sunlight Dialogues, about a disaffected policeman asked to engage a madman fluent in classical mythology; Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf legend from the monster's point of view, with an existential subtext; and October Light, about an embittered brother and sister living and feuding with each other in rural Vermont (the novel includes an invented "trashy novel" the woman reads). This last book won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976. Gardner was killed in a motorcycle accident on September 14, 1982.--Wikipedia abridged. In Exceptional Condition! Very light sunning to spine of dj. In Exceptional Condition!. Seller Inventory # 1312
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Emil Antonucci (illustrator). Illustrated by Emil Antonucci. First British edition. An association copy: INSCRIBED by the author to fellow writer John L'Heureux and his wife Joan Polston L'Heureux. L'Heureux reviewed Gardner's THE ART OF FICTON for the New York Time Book Review in 1986; Gardner had also reviewed some of L'Heureux's work. Near fine in a near fine (London hotel address written on the verso of the rear flap - perhaps where the book was inscribed) dust jacket. ; 174 pages. Seller Inventory # 79405
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