Literary Gardens: The imaginary gardens of writers and poets - Sandra Lawrence
This book celebrates the most enchanting gardens from literature and re-imagines them with beautiful artworks.
Writers have been inventing and imagining gardens for centuries. They are symbols of paradise and desire; scenes for romance and debauchery; and places for adventure and escape.
This book celebrates the most enchanting gardens from literature and re-imagines them with beautiful artworks. Find comfort in the gardens of your childhood (The Secret Garden, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland); reacquaint yourself with classics in a new light (Rebecca, The Great Gatsby); and discover the myriad ways writers use gardens to express themselves (The Pillow Book, The Big Sleep).
Sandra Lawrence and Lucille Clerc present 50 of the most cherished and evocative gardens from literature in this beautiful gift for garden and book lovers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
The Black Tulip, Alexandre Dumas
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The Garden of Forking Paths, Jorge Luis Borges
Fictional Plants
Tom’s Midnight Garden, Philippa Pearce
Elizabeth and her German Garden, Elizabeth von Armin
The Hanging Garden, Patrick White
The Chronicles of Narnia, C S Lewis
The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon
Plants and Gardens in Science Fiction
Larry’s Party, Carol Shields
Rappaccini’s Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twang Eng
Halloween Party, Agatha Christie
The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield
Plants in literature
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
The Ramanyana, Anonymous
Kew Gardens, Virginia Woolf
My Mother’s House and Sido, Colette
The Garden of the Fitz Contonis, Georgio Bassani
Fairy Tale Plants and Gardens
Mort, Terry Pratchett
My Garden, Jamaica Kinkaid
The Door in the Wall, H G Wells
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance, MR James
The World Tree
The Enchanted Garden, Italo Calvino
No Tomorrow, Vivant Denon
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Importance of Being Ernest, Oscar Wilde
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Reading list
Visitor info
Index
192 pages
Hardcover
