Grendel.

GARDNER, John.

$350.00

Item Number: 124604

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

First edition of Gardner’s classic retelling of Beowulf, as told from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 14 drawings by Emil Antonucci. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature tells his own side (the true side) of the Beowulf story in this revisionist novel by the author of The Wreckage of Agathon- a book William Gass has called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."