The garden of reading : an anthology of twentieth-century short fiction about gardens and gardeners
(2005)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/GARDEN/SC
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2005
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
270 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
1585675083, 0715632639 (UK)
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
Flower garden /
David Guterson -- Tree /
Rosamunde Pilcher -- Prize tomatoes /
Anne Rosner -- Garden of time /
J.G. Ballard -- How the crab apple grew /
Garrison Keillor -- Nosegay /
Sylvia Townsend Warner -- August /
Jane Smiley -- Grape harvest /
Colette -- Earth to earth /
Robert Graves -- Monkey garden /
Sandra Cisneros -- Lawnmower man /
Stephen King -- A curtain of green /
Eudora Welty -- Blue poppies /
Jane Green -- Occasional garden /
Saki -- Flavors of exile /
Doris Lessing -- Secret garden /
Victoria Rothschild -- See no weevil /
James Thurber -- Christmas Roses /
Edna O'Brien -- Garden of the Villa Mollini /
Rose Tremain -- A garden plot /
W.W. Jacobs -- Lady gardener /
Lisa St. Aubin de Teran -- So, some tempestuous morn /
Barbara Pym -- Green thoughts /
John Collier -- Fig tree /
V.S. Pritchett