Laurie Lee (Author of Cider with Rosie)

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Laurie Lee

Born

in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England

June 26, 1914

Died

May 13, 1997

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE, was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). While the first volume famously recounts his childhood in the idyllic Slad Valley, the second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1934, and the third with his return in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigade. ...more

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	Cider with Rosie 3.91 avg rating — 14,563 ratings — published 1959 — 178 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee, Leonard Rosoman (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 8,288 ratings — published 1969 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Moment of War 3.87 avg rating — 1,979 ratings — published 1991 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Rose for Winter 3.96 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 1955 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year 3.92 avg rating — 892 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie; As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning; A Moment of War by Laurie Lee, John Ward (Illustrator), Leonard Rosoman (Illustrator) 4.44 avg rating — 574 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Can't Stay Long 3.89 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 1975 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape 3.79 avg rating — 293 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer: Vintage Minis 3.48 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laurie Lee: Selected Poems 3.79 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Autobiographical Trilogy (3 books)
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“Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things”
― Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie

tags: beauty, beauty-in-nature, boyhood, childhood-memories, cider-with-rosie, countryside, landscape, laurie-lee, nature, pastoral

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“At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.”
― Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long

tags: love, true-love

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“For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.”
― Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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