Author: Gardner, John

Real education will always seek to strengthen what is best in the human soul: its longing for the experience of spiritual truth that brings into the self an objective appreciation of the noble aspects of its own nature, together with a subjective sense of real affinity with the rest of humanity, the earth planet as a whole, and the great cosmos above and beyond. The premise of this book is that a human being is a being of body, soul, and spirit, whose core is "eternal spirit," from which center one should strive to live. From this perspective, the aim of true education is to help our children ...
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Freddy's Book

By: Gardner, John

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : March 1980

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 452332

ISBN-13: 9780394509204

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Grendel

By: Gardner, John

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Vintage : May 1989

Seller ID: 475744

ISBN-13: 9780679723110

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. This is the book William Gass called one of the finest of our contemporary fictions.
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Gudgekin The Thistle Girl and Other Tales

By: Gardner, John

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : January 1976

Seller ID: 448307

ISBN-13: 9780394832760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

October Light

By: John Gardner

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : November 1976

Edition: Book Club

Seller ID: 452333

ISBN-13: 9780394499123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Stillness and Shadows

By: Gardner, John

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Knopf : May 1986

Seller ID: 406502

ISBN-13: 9780394544021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Berlitz Self-Teacher: French

By: Gardner, John

Price: $10.99

Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts : January 1949

Seller ID: 447790

ISBN: B001E9BH4O

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

no dust jacket, light shelf wear, discoloration on spine and front cover from age, text inside unmarred
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The King of the Hummingbirds and Other Tales

By: Gardner, John

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : January 1977

Seller ID: 448308

ISBN-13: 9780394833194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Poetry of Chaucer

By: Gardner, Mr. John

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press : September 1978

Seller ID: 454210

ISBN-13: 9780809308712

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"The Poetry of Chaucer "offers a reading of his poetry harmonious with the character of Chaucer as his own age knew and understood him. This new work by John Gardner is designed to complement his biography of Chaucer being published by Alfred A. Knopf."""The Poetry of Chaucer "is not simply one more sensitive reading of the poet s work, nor is it, simply, a modern writer s comment on the work of one of his two greatest English predecessors. Gardner s reading of the poetry of Chaucer provides a persuasive synthesis of virtually the whole body of scholarly work done on Chaucer in the past twenty...
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The Sunlight Dialogues

By: Gardner, John

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : October 1972

Seller ID: 145361

ISBN-13: 9780394471440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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October Light

Stillness and Shadows

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The King of the Hummingbirds and Other Tales

The Poetry of Chaucer

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