The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek
A pocket-sized gift edition of Karel Capeks The Gardeners Year, featuring black and white line drawings by the authors brother, Josef Capek.
A work of great charm and considerable subtlety which requires no more of the reader than a willingness to agree that it is a pleasant thing to own and cultivate a small patch of ground * Literary Review *
This is a book no gardener should be withoutThis delightful little book is cram full of information, philosophy, and humour. * Sunday Times *
This is a book no gardener should be withoutThis delightful little book is cram full of information, philosophy, and humour. * Sunday Times *
Karel Capek was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia. He was interested in visual art as a teenager and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague. During WWI he was exempt from military service because of spinal problems and became a journalist. He campaigned against the rise of communism and in the 1930s his writing became increasingly anti-fascist. He started writing fiction with his brother Josef, a successful painter, and went on to publish science-fiction novels, for which he is best known, as well as detective stories, plays and a singular book on gardening, The Gardener’s Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and the Czech PEN Club created a literary award in his name. He died of pneumonia in 1938.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781529096248 |
| ISBN 10 | 1529096243 |
| Title | The Gardener's Year |
| Author | Karel Capek |
| Series | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2023-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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