An extraordinarily brilliant, powerful and important work # 41 in the Fantasy Masterworks series, a library of the most original and influential fantasy ever written Includes a brand-new introduction by World Fantasy Award-winning author Jeffrey Ford, one of Gardner's former students A masterly retelling of the story of Beowulf from the monster's point of view 'Deserves a place on the same shelf as THE LORD OF THE RINGS, CAT'S CRADLE and CATCHER IN THE RYE' CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR 'No point in beating around the bush: John Gardner's third novel, GRENDEL, is an extraordinary achievement' NEW
John Gardner (1933-82) was an American academic, a scholar of mediaeval literature, and writer who incorporated fantasy elements in many of his stories and novels, most notably in GRENDEL, JASON AND MEDEA, FREDDY'S BOOK and IN THE SUICIDE MOUNTAINS. Gardner was eclectic and prolific; he also wrote children's books, libretti, academic and non-fiction and plays.
Few writers ever reach this level of greatness, It doesn't matter whether you think Grendel's about Anglo-Saxon warriors battling monsters or the collapse of superstition and the rise of capitalism, or both at once, this is mythic writing in every sense of those words. - SFX magazine - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
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