Contents

 

Philosophy Alfresco

 

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

Colette: Sex and Roses

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

 

A Stranger at the Gates

Bibliography: Leafing

Acknowledgements