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A Green Desire

2009-10-13 Fiction
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Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 778/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Green Desire by : Anton Myrer

Download or read book A Green Desire written by Anton Myrer. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two brothers, as different as night and day: one, charming and ruthless, buys his way into Harvard, Wall Street, and high society; the other brother remains by his mother's side and makes his way to the top without the influence of money or prestige. Raised in separate worlds, these brothers are bound by a bitter rivalry for riches and power, but mostly, for the exciting, wildly captivating woman they fight all their lives to possess, a woman whose passion for one destroys her love for the other. Their story consumes an American century, spanning decades of splendor, struggle, upheaval, and war. It's an absorbing saga of innocent dreams and green desire corrupted by gilded temptation.

Green Desire

2003 Gardening
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Release : 2003
Genre : Gardening
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Book Rating : 431/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Green Desire by : Rebecca W. Bushnell

Download or read book Green Desire written by Rebecca W. Bushnell. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recipes even when the authors insist that they rely completely on their own experience in these matters. Like early modern "books of secrets," early gardening manuals often promise the reader power to alter the essential properties of plants: to make the gillyflower double, to change the lily's hue, or to grow a cherry without a stone. Green Desire describes the innovative design of the old manuals, examining how writers and printers marketed them as fiction as well as practical advice for aspiring gardeners. Along with this attention to the delights of reading, it analyzes the strange dignity and pleasure of garden labor and the division of men's and women's roles in creating garden art. The book ends by recounting the heated debate over how much people could do to create marvels in their own gardens. For writers and readers alike, these green desires inspired dreams of power and self-improvement, fantasies of beauty achieved without work, and hopes for order in an unpredictable world--not so different from the dreams of gardeners today.

A Green Desire

1981
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Release : 1981
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Book Rating : 942/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Green Desire by : Anton Myrer

Download or read book A Green Desire written by Anton Myrer. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Green Desire

2018-07-05 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2018-07-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 45X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Green Desire by : Rebecca Weld Bushnell

Download or read book Green Desire written by Rebecca Weld Bushnell. This book was released on 2018-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recipes even when the authors insist that they rely completely on their own experience in these matters. Like early modern "books of secrets," early gardening manuals often promise the reader power to alter the essential properties of plants: to make the gillyflower double, to change the lily's hue, or to grow a cherry without a stone. Green Desire describes the innovative design of the old manuals, examining how writers and printers marketed them as fiction as well as practical advice for aspiring gardeners. Along with this attention to the delights of reading, it analyzes the strange dignity and pleasure of garden labor and the division of men's and women's roles in creating garden art. The book ends by recounting the heated debate over how much people could do to create marvels in their own gardens. For writers and readers alike, these green desires inspired dreams of power and self-improvement, fantasies of beauty achieved without work, and hopes for order in an unpredictable world—not so different from the dreams of gardeners today.

Circle of Desire

2011-10-18 Fiction
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Release : 2011-10-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 793/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Circle of Desire by : Carla Swafford

Download or read book Circle of Desire written by Carla Swafford. This book was released on 2011-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the top assassin at The Circle, a shadowy group of mercenaries, Olivia St. Vincent can hunt down anyone. She’s been trained since she was a teenager to kill without feeling, to interact with men without love. But when she’s kidnapped by the enigmatic leader of a rival organization, she learns she’s been lied to for years. She never worked for the good guys. Collin Ryker believes the sultry woman he’s abducted knows more than she’s telling about The Circle and its plans for complete domination. Over time, as they work together, Olivia’s tenacity and vulnerability captivate him. But if he isn’t careful, Collin will fall into the biggest trap of all: caring for a woman who can betray him to his greatest enemy.

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