The Literary Garden: Re-Creating Literature's Most Beautiful Gardens in Your Own Backyard Paperback - 2002
by Duncan Brine (Illustrator)
This book offers that most rare of gardening resources-inspiration and vision. A practical step-by-step guide accompanies excerpts from the works of Louisa May Alcott, Ivan Turgenev, Carl Sandburg, D. H. Lawrence, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Victor Hugo, and others-allowing readers to recreate literature's great gardens in their own backyard.
"The Literary Garden...begins at the point where literature and horticulture converge. Then, it wanders down the garden path to include notes and advice on growing flowers and plants, sources for seeds and information, suggestions on garden activities and recipes." (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Summary
From the colorful riots of daffodils in DuMaurier’s Rebecca to the overflowing orchard depicted in Wolfe’s Look Homeward Angel, great literature is filled with descriptions of lush, gorgeous gardens. With excerpts from treasured novels and beautifully rendered line drawings of the imaginary gardens or plantings they describe, The Literary Garden combines literary inspiration with practical instruction on how to bring your favorite fictional gardens to life.
Includes excerpts from works by:
Louisa May Alcott Ivan Turgenev Carl Sandburg D.H. Lawrence Harriet Beecher Stowe Charlotte Brontë Thomas Hardy Edith Wharton F. Scott Fitzgerald Victor Hugo and others!
“He often quoted to his students that passage from their fellow Auvergnat, Pascal: that Man was lost and saved in a garden.” —From Death Comes For the Archbishop, Willa Cather
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- Title The Literary Garden: Re-Creating Literature's Most Beautiful Gardens in Your Own Backyard
- Author Duncan Brine (Illustrator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date March 5, 2002
- ISBN 9780425183410 / 0425183416
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 8.03 x 0.76 in (20.35 x 20.40 x 1.93 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Gardens, Gardening
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00069889
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.803
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