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Retreat into "Gardens of the Imagination," a magnificent anthology of fiction and poetry from some of the world's best-loved writers. Gardens have long fed the literary imagination, and their landscapes are abundant with meaning. Beautifully illustrated in lush hues by artist Peter Malone, this collection takes readers on an inspired journey through the garden haunts of Vladimir Nabokov, Zora Neale Hurston, Pablo Neruda, Italo Calvino, Lewis Carroll, Octavio Paz, and many others. At turns astonishing, moving, and magical, this eclectic collection of prose and poetry spans ancient Babylon to the present, Wonderland to Xanadu. It is a book sure to delight gardeners and readers alike.
| ISBN | 0811818845 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780811818841
(What's this?) | | Pages | 144 | | Publisher | Chronicle Books | | Volumes | 000 | | Imprint | Chronicle Books | | Weight (grammes) | 755 | | Format | Hardback | | Published in | California | | Publication date | 23 Mar 2000 | | Height (mm) | 248 | | Illustrator | Peter Malone | | Width (mm) | 200 | | Library of Congress | PN6071.G27 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 820.80364 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Introduction | | 8 | | | | Gardens of Paradise | | | | | | The Garden of Eden (The Bible) | | 13 | | | | The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Myth) | | 15 | | | | Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | 16 | | | | Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov | | 19 | | | | Gardens of Enchantment | | | | | | From Hundred-Plant Garden to Three-Flavour Study by Lu Hsun | | 23 | | | | The Garden of Live Flowers by Lewis Carroll | | 26 | | | | Gardens of Transformation | | | | | | The Garden of the Torah by Howard Schwartz | | 31 | | | | The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett | | 34 | | | | The Observer, January 1950 by Vita Sackville-West | | 39 | | | | The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim | | 40 | | | | Gardens of Love | | | | | | Song of Solomon (The Bible) | | 44 | | | | Girl Gardening by Pablo Neruda | | 47 | | | | Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston | | 51 | | | | The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino | | 53 | | | | The Mower to the Glowworms by Andrew Marvell | | 64 | | | | Gardens of Temptation | | | | | | The Temptation of Eve by John Milton | | 67 | | | | Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | | 79 | | | | Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Lord Tennyson | | 107 | | | | Gardens of the Mind | | | | | | The Scarlet Flower by Vsevolod Garshin | | 117 | | | | The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges | | 122 | | | More... | | |
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