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The Gardener's Year
This very entertaining volume with its delightfully humorous pictures should be read by all gardeners. -- NatureMr....
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This very entertaining volume with its delightfully humorous pictures should be read by all gardeners. -- Nature
Mr. Čapek writes with sympathy, understanding, and humor. -- The New York Times
Has a mellowness and a charm that give it a high place in the humorous literature of gardening ... will delight the amateur gardener, and indeed everyone else. -- Saturday Review
The creator of this book is best known internationally as the author of R.U.R., the science-fiction play that introduced the term robot to the world. Karel Čapek's satiric gifts take a different turn in this impishly comic book, which recounts the trials, labors, joys, and meditations of the amateur gardener.
Rather than a how-to book, Čapek's volume offers a lighthearted mock-treatise on the pains and rewards of tending a small and resistant garden plot. From January to December, the author and his brother, illustrator Josef Čapek, trace the vagaries of the amateur horticulturist's year, with brief side notes on seeds, the soil, plants, the beauties of autumn, and other aspects of gardening. Fifty-nine delightful drawings complement this book, which will amuse readers with and without green thumbs.
Author: Karel Capek
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 09/13/2017
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780486817248
About the Author
Czech writer Karel Čapek (1890-1938) is best known as the author of R.U.R., the play that coined the term robot and a seminal work of science fiction. Ardently opposed to fascism and communism, Čapek was an active journalist as well as a versatile writer whose works encompassed novels, modern fairy tales, detective stories, and translations of French poetry.
Poet and painter Josef Čapek (1887-1945) frequently collaborated with his brother Karel in the writing of plays and short stories. Upon Germany's 1939 invasion of Czechoslovakia, his outspoken opposition to Nazism led to his arrest and imprisonment, and he died within days of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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Mr. Čapek writes with sympathy, understanding, and humor. -- The New York Times
Has a mellowness and a charm that give it a high place in the humorous literature of gardening ... will delight the amateur gardener, and indeed everyone else. -- Saturday Review
The creator of this book is best known internationally as the author of R.U.R., the science-fiction play that introduced the term robot to the world. Karel Čapek's satiric gifts take a different turn in this impishly comic book, which recounts the trials, labors, joys, and meditations of the amateur gardener.
Rather than a how-to book, Čapek's volume offers a lighthearted mock-treatise on the pains and rewards of tending a small and resistant garden plot. From January to December, the author and his brother, illustrator Josef Čapek, trace the vagaries of the amateur horticulturist's year, with brief side notes on seeds, the soil, plants, the beauties of autumn, and other aspects of gardening. Fifty-nine delightful drawings complement this book, which will amuse readers with and without green thumbs.
Author: Karel Capek
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 09/13/2017
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780486817248
About the Author
Czech writer Karel Čapek (1890-1938) is best known as the author of R.U.R., the play that coined the term robot and a seminal work of science fiction. Ardently opposed to fascism and communism, Čapek was an active journalist as well as a versatile writer whose works encompassed novels, modern fairy tales, detective stories, and translations of French poetry.
Poet and painter Josef Čapek (1887-1945) frequently collaborated with his brother Karel in the writing of plays and short stories. Upon Germany's 1939 invasion of Czechoslovakia, his outspoken opposition to Nazism led to his arrest and imprisonment, and he died within days of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
This title is not returnable
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