Bottled Spider
Bottled Spider, an Exciting and Descriptive Tale of Murder: Bottled Spider is an exciting tale of a serial killer, the likes of Jack-the-ripper, in 1940 war torn London. John Gardner tells the story in a highly descriptive fashion from the perspective of [... more]
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Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy ...
Author: H.L.A. Hart Author: John Gardner Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 340 EAN: 9780199534784 Edition: Second Edition ISBN: 0199534780 Number Of Pages: 315 Publication Date: 2008-03-12 [... more]
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Troubled Midnight
Author: John Gardner Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780749082994 ISBN: 0749082992 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2006-11-13 [... more]
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Offences and Defences: Selected Essays in the Philosophy ...
Author: John Gardner Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 345.001 EAN: 9780199239368 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0199239363 Number Of Pages: 280 Publication Date: 2007-12-19 [... more]
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Grendel
From Amazon.com: Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardner's careers: in addition [... more]
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On Becoming A Novelist
From Amazon.com: Picture the poor, young, serious-fiction writer. He toils alone at a pace not so different from that of Lincoln Tunnel traffic at rush hour in New York. His spouse has a "real" job, or perhaps he has a trust fund. His college [... more]
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Grendel
From Amazon.com: Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardner's careers: in addition [... more]
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On Moral Fiction
Postmodern novelist tells all!: I have to tell you, I don't get Gardner. To start with, he writes this book mainly as a gag to rile folks up. And some buy his confidence game, forgetting, as they do, that one of Gardner's favorite novelists was Melville. [... more]
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October Light
Gardner's best book: John Gardner was such an excellent writer that his artistry, like that of Hemingway, may go unnoticed by many readers. From the epic poem "Jason and Medea" and his translation of the Sumerian "Gilgamesh" to this [... more]
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Gilgamesh
Unfiltered translation and insightful commentary: The epic of Gilgamesh would, of course, be of historical interest regardless of its content, since it seems to be the oldest written narrative in human history. Its relevance, however, goes far beyond the [... more]
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
old-fashioned elitist boredom: This is a fairly helpful book for those born before the '70s-- a time when "a yarn" wasn't an archaic term. Does it give some helpful hints? Sure, there's the obvious ones like show don't tell and all characters [... more]
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Becoming A Writer
From Amazon.com: Even in 1934, Dorothea Brande knew that most writers didn't need another book on "technique" -- and this, before so many more would be published. No, she realized, as John Gardner notes in his foreword, "the root problems [... more]
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