Guy Davenport Books In Order

Collections

  1. Tatlin! (1974)
  2. Da Vinci’s Bicycle (1979)
  3. Eclogues (1981)
  4. Apples and Pears (1984)
  5. The Jules Verne Steam Balloon (1987)
  6. A Table of Green Fields (1993)
  7. The Cardiff Team (1996)
  8. 12 Stories (1997)

Non fiction

  1. Questioning Minds (2018)

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Guy Davenport Books Overview

Da Vinci’s Bicycle

his 2nd book of stories, dedicated to Zukofsky

Eclogues

Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their origins in Plutarch, Montaigne, The Acts of the Apostles, Theokritos, and the daily newspaper. Eclogues is a delight, and Guy Davenport proves a companionable and witty guide.

The Jules Verne Steam Balloon

Guy Davenport regarded by the ‘New York Times’ ‘one of our most gifted and versatile men of letters’ has produced in this collection of stories a remarkably harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms. Melding history, biography, botany, political theory, geology, and other interests, Davenport creates fictions that are complex but unified, mature, balanced, and resolved.

12 Stories

Since the publication of Tatlin! in 1974, Guy Davenport has established himself as one of the most original and stimulating writers of fiction today. Twelve Stories draws the best work from Davenports early collections: Tatlin! , Apples and Pears , and The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers . Chosen by the author, these stories are nowhere else in print. Guy Davenports short stories are journeys through history and the imagination. Radically original and surprising, comic and sensuous, Davenports virtuoso talent charms us into a world both familiar and strange. Whether in the timelessness of deep woods or fleeing the bloody dreamscape of battle, Davenports characters embody lifes contradictions.

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