The Writer's Garden (eBook)

How gardens inspired the world's great authors

Jackie Bennett (Autor)

Richard Hanson (Fotograf)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
240 Seiten
Frances Lincoln (Verlag)
978-0-7112-7717-5 (ISBN)

Infos

See inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this visually stunning and fascinating book. Discover the flower gardens, vegetable plots, landscapes and writing hideaways of 30 great authors – from Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Orchard House’ where she wrote Little Women and Agatha Christie at Greenway, to Virginia Woolf at Monk’s House and the Massachusetts home of Edith Wharton. Fully illustrated with specially commissioned photography plus archive images, and spanning centuries and continents, this book visits the homes and gardens that inspired novelists, poets and playwrights. It shows how outdoor spaces were important to writers in many different ways and offers insight into the lives and creative processes of beloved authors. Writers featured include: Jane Austen in Kent and Hampshire, Agatha Christie in Devon, Beatrix Potter in the Lake District, Thomas Hardy in Dorset, Walter Scott and Robert Burns in Scotland, William Wordsworth in Cumbria, Virginia Woolf and Rudyard Kipling in Sussex, Frances Hodgson Burnett in Kent, Jack London in California, Edward James in Mexico, Jean Cocteau and George Sand in France and Goethe in Germany. This deeply insightful book sheds new light on some of literature's greatest works, offers rare glimpses into the lives of these brilliant minds, and showcases in stunning full color the gardens in which these writers spent their time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 250 colour illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 10 x 10 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: 2023 • Agatha Christie • Alessandro Manzoni • Alice Walker • Art Book • artists sanctuary • at home with artists • Beatrix Farrand • Beatrix Potter • books • Chelsea Flower Show • Christoph Martin Wieland • Coffee Table Book • collections • courtyard • Creative Space • Elizabeth Lawrence • Emile Zola • Emily Dickinson • Ernest Hemingway • famous • Friedrich Schiller • F Scott Fitzgerald • garden architecture • Garden design • gardeners • garden inspirations • garden muse • garden photography • Gardens • garden sanctuary • Gardens in literature • gardens to visit • garden studio • Georges Sand • Goethe • great paintings • Henry David Thoreau • herman hesse • Illustrated • Inspiration • Island gardens • Jack London • Jane Austen • landscape gardening • learn about • Louisa May Alcott • Marcel Proust • Mark Twain • national gardening month • national garden month • natural world • Nature • Photo • Photographs • photos of gardens • plants and books • Playwrights • poets • private life of writers • real gardens • rhs • Roald Dahl • Robert Burns • Robert Frost • Royal Horticultural Society • Rudyard Kipling • shakespeare's gardens • stunning gardens • The artist's garden • Thomas Hardy • Tolstoy • Virginia Woolf • Walter Scott • William Wordsworth • writers and garden • writers at home
• ISBN-10: 0-7112-7717-6 / 0711277176
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-7717-5 / 9780711277175