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The Gardener's Year
Contributor(s): Capek, Karel (Author), Klinkenborg, Verlyn (Introduction by), Capek, Josef (Illustrator)

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 ISBN: 0375759484     ISBN-13: 9780375759482
Publisher: Kuperard
OUR PRICE: $15.20  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2002
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Annotation: From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener's life. First published in Prague in 1929, "The Gardener's Year combines a richly comic portrait of life in the garden, narrated month by month, with a series of delightful illustrations by the author's older brother and collaborator, Josef. Capek's gardeners--all too human, despite their lofty aspirations--often look the fool, whether they be found sopping wet, victims of the cobralike water hose, or hunched over, hands immersed in the soil, "presenting their rumps to the splendid azure sky." In their repeated folly, Capek gives us not only cause for laughter but also, in the end, "testimony of the imperishable and miraculous optimism of the human race."
This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg, a "New York Times editorialist and the author of "Making Hay and "The Last Fine Time.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Gardening | Essays & Narratives
- Gardening | Pictorial
- Biography & Autobiography | Environmentalists & Naturalists
Dewey: 635.9
LCCN: 2001051403
Series: Gardening (Modern Library)
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.24" W x 8.03" L (0.28 lbs) 144 pages
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: New York Times 06/02/2002 pg. 31
New York Review of Books 08/15/2002 pg. 17
 
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From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener's life. First published in Prague in 1929, The Gardener's Year combines a richly comic portrait of life in the garden, narrated month by month, with a series of delightful illustrations by the author's older brother and collaborator, Josef. Capek's gardeners--all too human, despite their lofty aspirations--often look the fool, whether they be found sopping wet, victims of the cobralike water hose, or hunched over, hands immersed in the soil, "presenting their rumps to the splendid azure sky." In their repeated folly, Capek gives us not only cause for laughter but also, in the end, "testimony of the imperishable and miraculous optimism of the human race."

This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg, a New York Times editorialist and the author of Making Hay and The Last Fine Time.
 
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