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The Gardener's Year



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The Czech writer Karel Capek (1890-1938) was renowned for his satirical play R.U.R., in which he coined the word robot (from the Czech word for peasant)--a blistering attack on technology in the service of regimentation. Perhaps surprisingly, Capek was also a dedicated gardener. In THE GARDENER'S YEAR, his classic, month-by-month walk through the garden, Capek vividly communicates the delight he took in digging in the soil and growing things--and the often comical frustrations he found there as well. First published in Prague in 1929, THE GARDENER'S YEAR is illustrated with witty little line drawings by his brother Josef, with whom he built a house and planted a garden, that bring Capek's humorous prose even further to life.



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