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Books with author Horace John Gardner

  • A child's bestiary

    John Gardner

    Hardcover (Knopf : distributed by Random House, Aug. 16, 1977)
    A collection of humorous verses about animals, friendly or otherwise.
  • Dragon, dragon, and other tales

    John Gardner

    Paperback (Bantam Books, Jan. 1, 1976)
    Four fairy tales featuring a dragon, a giant, a cunning mule, and a little chimney-girl.
  • Grendel

    John Gardner

    Mass Market Paperback (Ballantine Books, Nov. 12, 1979)
    Vintage paperback
  • Grendel

    John Gardner

    Mass Market Paperback (Ballantine Books, Dec. 12, 1975)
    Grendel [Dec 12, 1975] Gardner, John
  • Grendel

    John Gardner

    Mass Market Paperback (Ballantine Books, Nov. 12, 1977)
    Paperback
  • King of the Hummingbirds and Other Tales

    John Gardner

    Paperback (Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (J), Jan. 1, 1979)
    Four fairy tales featuring a stupid coppersmith's son, a witch unhappy in her profession, a gnome with power to change things, and a fat, bespectacled Jewish boy who hopes to marry a princess.
  • Grendel

    John Gardner

    Paperback (Orion Pub Co, Aug. 16, 2004)
    When Grendel is drawn up from the caves under the mere where he lives with his bloated, inarticulate hag of a mother into the fresh night air, it is to lay waste Hrothgar's meadhall and heap destruction on the humans he finds there. What else can he do? For he is not like the men who busy themselves with God, love and beauty. He sees the infuriating human rage for order and recognises the meaninglessness of his own existence. GRENDEL is John Gardner's masterpiece; it vividly reinvents the world of Beowulf. In Grendel himself, a creature of grotesque comedy, pain and disillusioned intelligence, Gardner has created the most unforgettable monster fantasy.
  • Grendel

    John Gardner

    Paperback (Ballantine Books, Aug. 16, 1971)
    None
  • Gudgekin, the Thistle Girl, and Other Tales

    John Gardner

    (Random House Childrens Books, Sept. 1, 1976)
    Fanciful, irreverent humor pervades four contemporary fairy tales that transport the reader to a magical, mysterious, and wildly unpredictable world
  • Grendel by John Gardner

    John Gardner

    Hardcover (Perfection Learning, March 24, 1763)
    None
  • Grendel

    John Gardner

    Mass Market Paperback (Ballantine Books, Aug. 16, 1973)
    The Beowulf legend retold from the monster's point of view
  • Grendel

    John C. Gardner

    Paperback (Gollancz, July 9, 2015)
    When Grendel is drawn up from the caves under the mere, where he lives with his bloated, inarticulate hag of a mother, into the fresh night air, it is to lay waste Hrothgar's meadhall and heap destruction on the humans he finds there. What else can he do? For he is not like the men who busy themselves with God and love and beauty. He sees the infuriating human rage for order and recognises the meaninglessness of his own existence. GRENDEL is John Gardner's masterpiece; it vividly reinvents the world of Beowulf. In Grendel himself, a creature of grotesque comedy, pain and disillusioned intelligence, Gardner has created the most unforgettable monster in fantasy.