Pleasures of the Garden: A Literary Anthology

by Christina Hardyment

This collection of classic garden writing presents the garden as place of solace in our busy world, a retreat for lovers, and even an earthly paradise. Bringing together a wide range of voices from across the centuries and around the globe--from Pliny in first-century Italy to Robert Louis Stevenson in nineteenth-century Hawaii--Pleasures of the Garden features fiction and poetry, memoirs and letters, all in celebration of gardens. The gardens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712357203
• ISBN13: 9780712357203
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.7"