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A32=Aoko Matsuda
A32=Doris Lessing
A32=Italo Calvino
A32=J G Ballard
A32=Katherine Mansfield
A32=Virginia Woolf
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Garden Stories

English

By (author): Various

Spectacular gardens are viewed from the perspective of a snail in Virginia Woolf's 'Kew Gardens' and from that of a sheltered teenage girl in Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party'. The family of Doris Lessing's 'Flavours of Exile' haul succulent vegetables and fruits from the rich African soil, and Colette in 'Bygone Spring' luxuriates in extravagantly blooming flowers. Children discover their own peculiar paradises in Sandra Cisneros's 'The Monkey Garden' and Italo Calvino's 'The Enchanted Garden', while adult gardeners find things that move and haunt them in William Maxwell's 'The French Scarecrow' and Jamaica Kincaid's 'The Garden I Have in Mind'.
Gardens of the mind round out the anthology: the beautiful but fatal garden of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter', the crystal buds of J. G. Ballard's 'The Garden of Time', ravenous orchids in John Collier's 'Green Thoughts', and Aoko Matsuda's 'Planting', in which a young woman plants each day whatever she has been given - roses and violets, buttons and broken cups, love and fear and sorrow.
An entrancing book for everyone who loves gardens and the beauty of nature.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 410g
  • Dimensions: 124 x 190mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Apr 2022
  • Publisher: Everyman
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781841596327

About Various

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group an informal collective of British writers artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces including Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando and The Waves. Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings The Hermit in Paris was published in 2003. J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai China. After the attack on Pearl Harbour the family was interned in a civilian camp. They returned to England in 1946. In 1956 Ballard's first story was published in New Worlds. His first novel The Drowned World was published in 1962. Empire of the Sun a novel based on his own experience in China was published in 1984 and won the Guardian Fiction Prize the James Tait Black Award and was filmed by Steven Spielberg. He is the author of many collections of short stories and novels including Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.

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