The great ambition of one of this novel's characters is to count his treasures and possibly sort them into piles. The title character at one point counts his numberless blessings, assigning each blessing the number one. He also is unable to get a ram to move in the first chapter, which alludes to the first sign of the zodiac, and each chapter refers to its corresponding zodiac sign. He is in his twelfth year of war with Hrothgar, though he considers himself at war with humans. This 1971 version 
The great ambition of one of this novel's characters is to count his treasures and possibly sort them into piles. The title character at one point counts his numberless blessings, assigning each blessing the number one. He also is unable to get a ram to move in the first chapter, which alludes to the first sign of the zodiac, and each chapter refers to its corresponding zodiac sign. He is in his twelfth year of war with Hrothgar, though he considers himself at war with humans. This 1971 version of a sixth century legend is told from the point of view of a monster. Name this work by John Gardner.
The great ambition of one of this novel's characters is to count his treasures and possibly sort them into piles.
Grendel