Everyman's Library Pocket Classics #: Garden Stories

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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 Matsudo Aoko' 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.