The Gardener's Year - Paperback
by Karel Capek
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Availability:In StockContributor:Karel Capek, Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction by), Josef Capek (Illustrator)Series:Gardening (Modern Library)Publish date:2002-02-19Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Modern LibraryISBN-13:9780375759482ISBN-10:375759484UPC:9780375759482Book Category:Gardening, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Essays & Narratives, Pictorial, Environmentalists & NaturalistsSize:8.03 x 5.24 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SC11DC521W
The Gardener's Year
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,...
Series: Gardening (Modern Library)
Language:EnglishPublisher:Modern LibraryISBN-13:9780375759482ISBN-10:375759484UPC:9780375759482Book Category:Gardening, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Essays & Narratives, Pictorial, Environmentalists & NaturalistsSize:8.03 x 5.24 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SC11DC521W
Karen Capek is widely considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the twentieth century. A novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist, he was a strong dissident voice during the period of fascist buildup in Europe between the World Wars. Most famous for his play R.U.R., which coined the word "robot," he wrote a number of satires, as well as the utopian fantasy novel War...
Publisher: Modern Library
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Karel Capek, Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction by), Josef Capek (Illustrator)
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