Books like Grendel

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his side of the story in a book William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."

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Antigone by Sophocles (-441) · 3.6★
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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818) · 3.75★
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1595) · 3.94★
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus (1942) · 4.18★
The Iliad by Homer (-750) · 3.83★
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969) · 4.06★