John Gardner

Grendel

Freddy's Book

A Pastoral Novel

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The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and hopeless quest for immortality. It tells of the heroic exploits of an ancient ruler of the walled city of Uruk named Gilgamesh. Included in its story is an account of the Flood that predates the Biblical version by centuries. Gilgamesh and his companion, a wild man of the woods named Enkidu, fight monsters and demonic powers in search of honor and lasting fame. When Enkidu is put to death by the vengeful goddess Ishtar, Gilgamesh travels to the underworld to find an answer to his grief and confront the question of mortality.

Gilgamesh

John Gardner's Collection on Writing

License Renewed

The Unrecognized Christ

The Forms of Fiction

The Secret Families

The Autobiography of an Alcoholic

Spin the Bottle

Appendix to a Former Paper on Anomalous Affections of the Respiratory Organs

The Dancing Dodo

Icebreaker

Gill Nicholls

Focusing on the move from primary to secondary school, this book aims to help teachers and school managers to recognize and accommodate the effects that this transition has on children's lives.

Moving Between Key Stages

Pupils in Transition

Life and Times of Chaucer

A selection of some of the author's best-known and most provocative writings on criminal law. Although it discusses the legitimacy of criminal punishment, it proceeds on the footing that the criminal law does many important things apart from punishing people.

Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Criminal Law

Offences and Defences

Written in the 15th century, this version of the legend of King Arthur is perhaps the most famous. Filled with stories of adventure and chivalry among the knights of the Round Table in Camelot, love, and magic, it sets the imagination in motion.

CliffsNotes on Malory's Le Morte d’Arthur

John Gardner

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