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My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Experience the tranquility and beauty of a garden through this charming narrative, designed for easy reading and comfort. more

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Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner was an American novelist born on September 12, 1829, and died on October 20, 1900. Known for his humor and satire, his works include notable titles such as 'The Country of the Pointed Firs'. more

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“There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.”

“He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.”

“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”