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Contents Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Widowers’ Houses: “Life Here Is a Perfect Idyll” 9 2. Mrs. Warren’s Profession: The Walled Gardens 23 3. Arms and the Man: “I Took Care to Let Them Know That We Have a Library” 34 4. Candida: A Wall of Bookshelves and the Best View of the Garden 44 5. Man and Superman: Books on a Garden Table 55 6. Major Barbara: The Salvation Army’s “Garden” and Cusins’s Books 74 7. Misalliance: Gardens and Books as the Means to New Dramatic Forms 87 8. Heartbreak House: “A Long Garden Seat on the West” 102 9. Back to Methuselah: The Original Garden and a Library Too 111 Conclusion 125 Notes 131 Bibliography 157 Index 163 ...

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