Contents
Jane Austen: The Consolations of Chawton Cottage
Marcel Proust: Bonsai in the Bedroom
Leonard Woolf: The Apples of Monk’s House
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Thought-Tree
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Botanical Confessions
George Orwell: Down and Out with a Sharp Scythe
Emily Dickinson: The Acres of Perhaps
Nikos Kazantzakis: Raking Stones
Jean-Paul Sartre: Chestnuts and Nothingness
Voltaire: The Best of All Possible Estates