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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 to his...(more) work as a novelist, Gardner was a noted professor of medieval literature and a scholar of ancient languages.(less)