An einer abgelegenen Biegung der Themse, dort, wo selbst das kleinste Ruderboot nicht weiterkommt, liegt Little Summerford, ein winziges, verschlafenes, aber paradiesisches Nest mit üppigen Blumenwiesen und prallvollen Fischteichen. Hier wohnt in einer alten Mühle Charley Moon, ein treuherziger Querkopf, der mit seinen Späßen das ganze Dorf unterhält. Bis eines Tages auf einer Amateurbühne sein Talent entdeckt wird und er eintaucht in die glamouröse Welt der großen Bühnen. Von den Zuschauern gefeiert und von den Frauen geliebt, lebt Charley Moon einen Traum – doch London ist nicht Little Summerford, und so ganz kann sein Herz Rose, die Jugendliebe aus dem Dorfladen, und das kleine Dorf zwischen den Hügeln nicht vergessen.
Reginald Arkell Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Reginald Arkell fu uno sceneggiatore e romanziere comico britannico, noto principalmente per i suoi musical teatrali per il palcoscenico londinese. Le sue opere attingevano spesso a prospettive umoristiche e satiriche sulla storia e sulla vita quotidiana. Fu anche autore di versi sul giardinaggio, apprezzati per la loro leggerezza e arguzia. Lo stile distintivo di Arkell catturava le sfumature comiche della natura umana con acuta osservazione.






Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden
- 110pagine
- 4 ore di lettura
Delightful descriptions and characterizations enliven this tale of an old-time gardener in an English countryside garden and his love of plants. With tender mentoring and the luck of winning a prize at the flower show, young Herbert becomes what he had dreamed of. This is the amusing story of an awkward orphan child with one leg a bit longer than the other who rises from unremarkable school-boy days spent picking wild-flowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener "Old Herbaceous," the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard. Old Herbaceous traces his journey from young help to head gardener and although things have changed, the world had started with a garden (in Eden) after all, and things that old don't disappear so easily! Sprinkled with many nuggets of gardening wisdom, this is THE classic novel of the garden and the gardener, a witty and comical portrait, with a main character as unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse's immortal butler, Jeeves.

