JOHN GARDNER AND LENNIS DUNLAP. — The Forms of Fiction.

Random House, New York, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 655pp. Cream paper-covered boards lettered in green at the spine and upper board. Some light soiling to the boards, and a touch of bruising to the spine ends. A short tear to the backstrip makes this a good copy only, but it remains exceedingly bright and crisp internally. No dust wrapper, were one called for. A seventeen-page introduction and a fifteen-page essay precedes an anthology of thirty short stories and novellas, designed to give students a basis for understanding the techniques and characteristics of good fiction. Includes works by Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Katherine Anne Porter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Fyofor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and others. John Gardner's uncommon first book, co-authored during the three year period he taught at Chico State College (the American novelist and critic is probably best known for his 1971 novel 'Grendel', which retells the Beowulf myth from the point of view of the monster)., Good, No Jacket