Description
The charming and erudite first section focuses on history and is devoted to types of gardens ranging from the biblical Garden of Eden to English parklands; the second perceptively considers their role in literary works. Concealed within these cultivated wanderings is also an element of autobiography. Lovers of literature and gardening alike will fall in love with this beautifully written meditation.
About the Author
Evelyne Bloch-Dano is a prizewinning and widely translated author whose most notable works include the biographies Madame Zola (1997, Elle magazine's Grand prix des lectrices), Flora Tristan: La femme-messie (2001, Prix Francois Billetdoux), Madame Proust (2004, Prix Renaudot de l'essai), and Le Dernier amour de George Sand (2010) as well as many other titles.
Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago.
Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale University and the author of Dreaming in French.
Book Information
ISBN 9780813940250
Author Evelyne Bloch-Dano
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint University of Virginia Press
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Weight(grams) 350g