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The Gardener's Year (Modern Library Gardening)

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From the internationally 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 editorialist and the author of Making Hay and The Last Fine Time.

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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 12, 2007 Type: User Review Gardener's Gentle Humor

I bought this book for a friend, as a gift upon her achieving Master Gardener certification. I expected something a bit different, a bit more practical, perhaps, but after leafing through the pages, I read the entire book before I gave it to her....
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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 23, 2006 Type: User Review Wonderful and quick read!

I brought this as one of those suggested sells, you know the "people who brought blah blah blah also brought this book" . . . so I did. And boy am I glad I did! Karel Capek is a wonderful author who struck a resounding chord in the heart and soul...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 06, 2005 Type: User Review Lowdown on Gardeners

This is the best book about gardeners I know of. With grace and humor, this book delightfully explores the glories and foibles of serious amateur gardeners. Any garden nut who reads this book without laughing and almost crying over this...
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From: Amazon Posted: May 09, 2002 Type: User Review Eternal spring....

I don't know much about Czech literature, so I don't know if the Prague Spring had anything to do with the writing of Karel Capek, but I would not be surprised to discover a connection. "Leaves wither because spring is already beginning, because...
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From: Amazon Posted: Mar 17, 2002 Type: User Review Amazon's Review is Totally Off Base.

There is humor and self-deprecation in The Gardener's Year...This is a book that will appeal to the gardener, the philospher, and the Zen deotee, the reader of self-help books, as well as the humorist. Here are quotes: "After his death, the...
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