num_pages: 208
description: It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one. The Gardener's Year is a charismatic product of Karel Capek's amusing, informative, and full of a quizzical interest in people, animals and plants. In this new version, Geoffrey Newsome -the highly acclaimed translator of Capek's witty Letters from England -has captured the grace and irony of the original Czech, to produce a volume that will be treasured equally by those who love gardening as a relaxation, by those who loathe it as a chore, and by those who have no interest in it whatsoever.
language: English
title: Gardener's Year
titlecomplete: Gardener's Year
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Essays, Humor, Nature, Literature, Classics, Nonfiction, Czech Literature, Gardening
ratings_count: 1260
places: Czechoslovakia
publisher: Continuum