As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
$22.94
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
23 July 2014
Summary
The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie
‘The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep’s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world’
Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for ‘Will …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241953280 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241953286 |
| Author: | Laurie Lee |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 128mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A beautiful piece of writing
A beautiful piece of writing * Observer *
The vivid sensitive, irresistibly readable story of what happened after he left home * Daily Mail *
A poet’s book * Sunday Times *
He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour * Sunday Times *
There’s a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down * New Statesman *
Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee
Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, Laurie Lee was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of 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, an experience he recounted in A Moment of War.
Lee published four collections of poems:
- The Sun My Monument (1944)
- The Bloom of Candles (1947)
- My Many-Coated Man (1955)
- Pocket Poets (1960)
His other works include:
- The Voyage of Magellan (1948)
- The Firstborn (1964)
- I Can’t Stay Long (1975)
- Two Women (1983)
He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography:
- Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969)
- A Moment of War (1991)
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