Peter Parker

Brains with green fingers

A review of Damon Young’s Voltaire’s Vine and Other Philosophies. Gardens: Voltaire loved them, Satre hated them, Proust was allergic to them, and Orwell gardened himself to death

‘Harmony and order were what Jane Austen sought in her life and work’. Chawton House, in Hampshire (above), was inherited by Jane’s brother, Edward. [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 05 April 2014

  • Voltaire’s Vine and Other Philosophies

    Damon Young

    Rider, pp. 200

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