Bokus
Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2011

Cider With Rosie

Av Laurie Lee

96 kr

Läs direkt i Bokus Reader – eller ladda ned till din enhet

Fler format och utgåvor

Beskrivning
The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countrysideCider 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.‘Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. It sings in the memory’ Sunday Times
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-08-19
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781407073361
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
Utforska kategorier
Mer om författaren

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, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as described in his book As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Laurie Lee died in May 1997. In its obituary the Guardian wrote, 'He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precisions'.

Recensioner i media

"Utterly captivating" Four Shires "A classic of English literature" Good Book Guide "[Laurie Lee] froze a moment in time for us. You don't forget the language and he is wonderful at detail" -- Michael Morpurgo Daily Express "It has got a marvellous morning freshness. There is hardly a sentence in it that does not set the sense of touch and smell, as well as sight and hearing, tingling" Daily Mail "Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. It sings in the memory" Sunday Times

Betyg & recensioner

0 recensioner

Inga recensioner tillgängliga.