Cider with Rosie - Lee, Laurie
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"A beloved English classic that celebrates a bygone world and the innocence and wonder of childhood-more than six million copies sold worldwide. Laurie Lee was born in 1914 in Gloucestershire, then a remote corner of England. One of eight children, he was brought up by his capable mother: "I was perfectly content . . . and tumbled through the hand-to-mouth days, patched or dressed-up, scolded, admired, swept off my feet in sudden passions of kisses, or dumped forgotten among the unwashed pots." Lee's much-loved memoir opens when he was just a baby-younger than three years old-and ends as he…mehr

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"A beloved English classic that celebrates a bygone world and the innocence and wonder of childhood-more than six million copies sold worldwide. Laurie Lee was born in 1914 in Gloucestershire, then a remote corner of England. One of eight children, he was brought up by his capable mother: "I was perfectly content . . . and tumbled through the hand-to-mouth days, patched or dressed-up, scolded, admired, swept off my feet in sudden passions of kisses, or dumped forgotten among the unwashed pots." Lee's much-loved memoir opens when he was just a baby-younger than three years old-and ends as he becomes a young man experiencing his first kiss from Rosie. In between, on his journey from innocence to experience, Lee takes in the cadence of village and family life while suffering the awkward agonies of adolescence. He illuminates an era without electricity or telephones, an England on the cusp of the modern era, with a poignant lyricism that has captivated readers for decades. This Nonpareil edition includes a new introduction by award-winning author Simon Winchester"--
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Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age on nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, as described in his book As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Cider With Rosie (1959) has sold over six million copies worldwide, and was followed by two other volumes of autobiography: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). Laurie Lee also published four collections of poems, The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Packet Poems (1960) as well as The Voyage of Magellan (1948), a verse play for radio, A Rose for Winter (1955), which records his travels in Andalusia, The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975), a collection of his writing, and Two Women (1983). Laurie Lee died in May 1997. In its obituary the Guardian wrote, 'He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precisions'.
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Utterly captivating Four Shires