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A Study Guide for Charles Baxter's "Gryphon"
A Study Guide for Charles Baxter's "Gryphon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
The Feast of Love
National Book Award Finalist • A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, from "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) and the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award "A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom." —The Washington Post The Feast of Love is just that—a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones. In vignett...
Charles Baxter's Journal
In 1932 Lord Jonathan Fowley was gaoled in Mongolia for theft to be publicly executed within 90 days. Coerced into intervening by Fowleys' fiancée, Baxter, Ranskill and their man Rudge, set sail from Southampton for Macao 'in the interests of mankind.' They went aboard Fowley's private clipper where the complement included the scheming, self-obsessed, grasping and man-eating Isabella Howard, Jonathan Fowley's fiancée, and a certain Elwyn Cox.
