Diana Secker Tesdell Ordine dei libri

"An anthology of classic short fiction about or set in gardens"-- Provided by publisher

From Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Artist of the Beautiful and Albert Camus's The Artist at Work to Bernard Malamud's Rembrandt's Hat and Aimee Bender's The Color Master, the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who create.

Classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith and J.