John Gardner
Author · 1933 – 1982

John Gardner

John Champlin Gardner Jr. 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.

Works

Grendel
1971
Nickel mountain
1963
The sunlight dialogues
1972
Mickelsson's ghosts
1982
October light
1976
Freddy's book
1980
The wreckage of Agathon
1970
The king's Indian
1974
The Sunlight Dialogues
1973
Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes
2002
The life & times of Chaucer
1977
The complete works of the Gawain-poet.
1965
The art of fiction
1984
Prentice Hall Literature
1991
On Becoming a Novelist
1983
Jason and Medeia
1973
The art of living, and other stories
1981
Dragon, dragon, and other tales
1975
On moral fiction
1978
On writers and writing
1994
The Resurrection
1966
MSS
1980
The forms of fiction
1962
In the suicide mountains
1977
The poetry of Chaucer
1977
Gilgamesh
1984
Complete Works of the Gawain Poet
1965
The construction of the Wakefield cycle.
1974
Stillness and Shadows
1987
La symphonie des spectres
2012
The temptation game
1980
The alliterative Morte Arthure
1971
The Alliterative Morte Arthure
1973
The Best American Short Stories 1982
1982
Frankenstein
1979
Mickelsson's Ghosts Part 1 of 2
1982
Mss
1982
Rumpelstiltskin
1980
Sunlight Dialogues Part 1 of 2
1972
Sunlight Dialogues Part 2 of 2
1972
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