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The Literary Garden: Re-Creating Literature's Most Beautiful Gardens in Your Own
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The Literary Garden: Re-Creating Literature's Most Beautiful Gardens in Your Own Backyard Tapa blanda - 2002

de 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)


Resumen

Bring your favorite fictional gardens to life in all their magnificent glory.

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

Información de la editorial

Bring your favorite fictional gardens to life in all their magnificent glory with this charming gardening book--the perfect gift for book lovers...with or without a green thumb! 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 Bront
- Thomas Hardy
- Edith Wharton
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Victor Hugo
- and more!

Detalles

  • Título The Literary Garden: Re-Creating Literature's Most Beautiful Gardens in Your Own Backyard
  • Autor Duncan Brine (Illustrator)
  • Encuadernación Tapa blanda
  • Edición Reprint
  • Páginas 288
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Berkley Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Fecha de publicación March 5, 2002
  • ISBN 9780425183410 / 0425183416
  • Peso 0.79 libras (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensiones 8.01 x 8.03 x 0.76 pulgadas (20.35 x 20.40 x 1.93 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Gardens, Gardening
  • Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 00069889
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.803

Reseñas en medios

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

Acerca del autor

Duncan Brine is a Princeton-educated landscape designer who worked in theatre and film before founding his design firm, Horticultural Design, in 1984. Specializing in residential gardens, his work has taken him from rooftop gardens in Manhattan to rural properties throughout the East Coast. He lives with his wife and two sons in Pawling, New York, amidst his six-acre nursery garden.
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