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 genius: 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-03-11
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441195333
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation

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'There was no writer like him... He made it possible to actually invent worlds, and with laughter into the bargain. This prophetic assurance was mixed with a brand-new surrealistic humour, and it was honed to hard-edged social satire, still a unique combination'. - Arthur Miller.Karel Capek (1890-1938) was one of the most original Czech writers of the 1920s and 30s, whose works were the inspiration for much of the science fiction of Europe and America. Endlessly inventive and extraordinarily prescient, full of humour and wit, his plays explore and defend man's humanity. He is known for RUR where the robot - an idea Capek was the first to invent - gradually takes over all aspects of human existence except procreation; The Insect play, a satirical fable in which beetles, butterflies and ants give dramatic form to different philosophies of life; The Makropulos Case, which examines human mortality, finally celebrating the average lifespan and The White Plague, a savage and anguished satire against fascist dictatorship and the virus of inhumanity.

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'Karel Capek's distillation of the agony and the ecstasy that runs through every gardener's year has been beautifully translated by Geoffrey Newsome.' John Patten, Country Life, August 2003

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ForewordTranslator's noteHow Gardens Are Laid OutHow a Gardener Comes into BeingThe Gardner's JanuarySeedsThe Gardner's FebruaryOn the Art of GardeningThe Gardner's MarchBudsThe Gardner's AprilFestivalThe Gardner's MayBlessed RainThe Gardner's JuneOn Vegetable GrowersThe Gardner's JulyA Botanical ChapterThe Gardner's AugustOn Cactus GrowersThe Gardner's SeptemberSoilThe Gardner's OctoberOn the Beauties of AutumnThe Gardner's NovemberPreparationThe Gardner's DecemberOn the Gardening LifeExplanatory NotesAfterwordA Chronology of Karel CapekA Brief Chronology of Josef Capek