The Country Housewife's Handbook

The Country Housewife's Handbook - Paperback

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The Country Housewife's Handbook - Paperback

The Country Housewife's Handbook - Paperback

by Various
$41.74
$41.74

Book Overview

This absorbing early work is a comprehensive look at the country housewife's work and provides a fascinating glimpse at a bygone age. Containing a wealth of information and anecdote much of which is still useful and practical to today's gardener or smallholder. Contents Include: The Vegetable Garden; The Fruit Garden; Home-Made Wines and Beverages; The Flower Garden; Flowering Trees and Shrubs; The Rose Garden; The Rock Garden; The Herb Garden; Poultry, Duck and Rabbit Keeping; The Apiary; Manures and Composts; Marketing; Hints for Housewife and Gardener; and Index. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
ISBN9781445512686
Author Various
PublisherRead Books
GenreHistory
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2010
LanguageENG- English
Pages172
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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James Nagel, Edison Distonguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia, has edited several collections on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, and Hamlin Garland, as well as the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition of John Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven.Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories (2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader (1997). His other books include Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn (1993), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997) and Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (2001).

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