The Gardener's Year - Hardcover

Capek, Karel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299100200 ISBN 13: 9780299100209

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1984

Synopsis

The Gardener's Year is a characteristic product of Karel Capek's genius: amusing, informative, and full of a quizzical interest in people, animals and plants.

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From the Inside Flap:

ernationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener’s life. First published in Prague in 1929, The Gardener’s Year combines a richly comic portrait of life in the garden, narrated month by month, with a series of delightful illustrations by the author’s older brother and collaborator, Josef. Capek’s gardeners—all too human, despite their lofty aspirations—often look the fool, whether they be found sopping wet, victims of the cobralike water hose, or hunched over, hands immersed in the soil, “presenting their rumps to the splendid azure sky.” In their repeated folly, Capek gives us not only cause for laughter but also, in the end, “testimony of the imperishable and miraculous optimism of the human race.”

This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg, a New York Times<

From the Back Cover:

“There was no writer like him.” —Arthur Miller

“A charming and loving chronicle of the Czechoslovak playwright’s backyard garden in Prague. . . . [A] funny but meaty little book.” —The New York Times

“Capek’s work has lost nothing of its freshness and luster.” —The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0299100200
• ISBN 13: 9780299100209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160