The Gardener's Year

Karel Capek (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2017
Dover Publications Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-486-81724-8 (ISBN)

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A lighthearted mock-treatise reflects upon the pains and rewards of tending a small garden plot. "This very entertaining volume with its delightfully humorous pictures should be read by all gardeners." — Nature.

"This very entertaining volume with its delightfully humorous pictures should be read by all gardeners." — Nature. An internationally renowned Czech author presents a richly comic portrait of a year in the life of an amateur horticulturist. Rather than a how-to book, Karel Capek's volume offers a lighthearted mock-treatise on the pains and rewards of tending a small and resistant garden plot that will amuse readers with and without green thumbs.

Czech writer Karel Capek (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, Capek 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 Capek (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.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	145 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
ISBN-10	0-486-81724-5 / 0486817245
ISBN-13	978-0-486-81724-8 / 9780486817248
Zustand	Neuware