Review:
'Capek's The Gardener's Year is a celebration of the virtues of being close to the soil...The Gardener's Year...is perfect vacation reading for the gardener and nongardener...It's sunny with a hint of a breeze and just a small cloud the size of a man's hand.' Barbara Day, The Prague Post, 06/08/2006 Review in Hortus, No. 67, Autumn 2003 '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 '...The Gardener's Year, excellently translated by Geoffrey Newsome, is a work of great charm and considerable subtlety...' Miranda Seymour, The Literary Review, September 2003--Sanford Lakoff "Literary Review "
About the Author:
Karel Capek is well known for his early science fiction, notably "The War of the Newts.""The Gardener's Year," in which he gives himself over freely to his true passion, was published originally in Czech, in 1929, and in English by Allen & Unwin in 1931. Long out of print, it found a new life in a 1982 French edition, and now with this Wisconsin reprinting of t he English translation Capek's book takes a firm place among the classic works of gardening literature."
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