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Cider With Rosie

By Laurie Lee
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Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee is a vivid memoir capturing the author's idyllic childhood in a small English village in the early 20th century. Through poetic prose, Lee presents a series of episodic recollections filled with pastoral beauty and the innocence of youth. The book beautifully evokes the transition from childhood to adulthood against the backdrop of a changing rural landscape.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy poetic and nostalgic memoirs. It's a beautifully written tale capturing the essence of English rural life in the early 20th century, filled with vivid descriptions and heartwarming stories from the author's childhood. If you love immersive storytelling that transports you to a bygone era, this book might be a perfect choice.

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Cider With Rosie

Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past.

The evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside.

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'I remember, too, the light on the slopes, long shadows in tufts and hollows, with cattle, brilliant as painted china, treading their echoing shapes.'

Cider With Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village. From the moment he is set down in the long grass, 'thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers', he depicts a world that is both tangibly real yet belonging to a now distant past.

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Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie is celebrated for its captivating narrative and vivid depiction of English rural life. It is praised as a classic piece of literature with its richly detailed and evocative language, leaving a lasting impression on readers. The memoir is noted for its atmospheric portrayal of a bygone era, offering a magical and immersive reading experience.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780099285663

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 September 2002

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 185g

Pages: 256

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Biography & Memoir Laurie Lee Non-Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

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.

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