The Literary Garden
by Brine, Duncan
Bring your favorite fictional gardens to life in all their magnificent glory.
From the colorful riots of daffodils in DuMaurier’s Rebecca to the overflowing orchard depicted in Wolfe’s Look Homeward Angel, great literature is filled with descriptions of lush, gorgeous gardens. With excerpts from treasured novels and beautifully rendered line drawings of the imaginary gardens or plantings they describe, The Literary Garden combines literary inspiration with practical instruction on how to bring your favorite fictional gardens to life.
Includes excerpts from works by:
Louisa May Alcott Ivan Turgenev Carl Sandburg D.H. Lawrence Harriet Beecher Stowe Charlotte Brontë Thomas Hardy Edith Wharton F. Scott Fitzgerald Victor Hugo and others!
“He often quoted to his students that passage from their fellow Auvergnat, Pascal: that Man was lost and saved in a garden.” —From Death Comes For the Archbishop, Willa Cather
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The Literary Garden: Recreating Literature's Most Beautiful Gardens in Your Own Backyard
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