The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek

The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek

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.

Karel Capek (1890-1938) is generally considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of this century. He was Czechoslovakia's leading novelist, playwright, story writer, and columnist, and the spirit of its short-lived democracy. His plays appeared on Broadway soon after their debut in Prague, and his books were translated into many languages. Capek expressed himself in the form of accessible and highly enjoyable writing.

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ISBN 13	9780486817248
ISBN 10	0486817245
Title	The Gardener's Year
Author	Karel Capek
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2017-10-27
Number of pages	112
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