As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141397039
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning written by Laurie Lee and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie 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 you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . . '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 'A beautiful piece of writing' Observer

Modern Classics As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0241953286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Modern Classics As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning written by Laurie Lee and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie 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 you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . . '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 'A beautiful piece of writing' Observer

Red Sky at Sunrise

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141927372
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Red Sky at Sunrise written by Laurie Lee and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1993-10-28 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.' 'This trilogy is a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long. For nineteen years this was the limit of my world, then one midsummer morning I left home and walked to London and down the blazing length of Spain during the innocent days of the early thirties. Never had I felt so fat with time, so free to go where I would. Then such indulgence was suddenly broken by the savage outbreak of the Civil War . . .' - Laurie Lee

Cider with Rosie ; As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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ISBN 13 : 9780140143157
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Cider with Rosie ; As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning written by Laurie Lee and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully produced centenary edition of this classic story of an English childhood, with cover and illustrations from Mark Hearld and an introduction from Michael Morpurgo. "Summer was also the time of these: of sudden plenty, of slow hours and actions, of diamond haze and dust on the eyes; of jazzing wasps and dragonflies, haystooks and thistle-seeds, snows of white butterflies, skylark's eggs, bee-orchids, and frantic ants... All this, and the feeling that it would never end, that such days had come forever... All sights twice-brilliant and smells twice-sharp, all game-days twice as long... we used up the light to its last violet drop, and even then we couldn't go to bed." " Cider With Rosie "is the best and most vital kind of memoir, rich with colourful, sensuous impressions of life in an English village after the First World War. It overflows with stories and characters made fantastical by the writer's child-perspective, and it draws the reader irresistibly into the lost land of the past. With this beautiful special edition, Vintage Classics celebrates 100 years since the birth of the author, Laurie Lee, and salutes this remarkable, surprising and well-loved classic.

Summer

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473548705
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Summer written by Laurie Lee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other – a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucked and gobbled, and games played until the last drop of dusk. Lee’s joyful and stirring writing captures the very essence of England’s golden season. Selected from the book Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee ‘An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, but also to an England that has vanished’ J.B. Priestly VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

Cider With Rosie

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407073362
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Cider With Rosie written by Laurie Lee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside 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. ‘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

Life Writing and Space

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317105222
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Life Writing and Space by : Eveline Kilian

Download or read book Life Writing and Space written by Eveline Kilian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does our ability, desire or failure to locate ourselves within space, and with respect to certain places, effect the construction and narration of our identities? Approaching recordings and interpretations of selves, memories and experiences through the lens of theories of space and place, this book brings the recent spatial turn in the Humanities to bear upon the work of life writing. It shows how concepts of subjectivity draw on spatial ideas and metaphors, and how the grounding and uprooting of the self is understood in terms of place. The different chapters investigate ways in which selves are reimagined through relocation and the traversing of spaces and texts. Many are concerned with the politics of space: how racial, social and sexual topographies are navigated in life writing. Some examine how focusing on space, rather than time, impacts upon auto/biographical form. The book blends sustained theoretical reflections with textual analyses and also includes experimental contributions that explore independencies between spaces and selves by combining criticism with autobiography. Together, they testify that life writing can hardly be thought of without its connection to space.

A Moment of War

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141929553
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book A Moment of War written by Laurie Lee and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1992-07-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A Moment of War’ is the magnificent conclusion to Laurie Lee’s autobiographical trilogy begun in ‘Cider with Rosie’ and ‘As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning’. It was December 1937 when the young Laurie Lee crossed the Pyrenees and walked into the bitter winter of the Spanish Civil War. With great vividness and poignancy, Lee portrays the brave defeat of youthful idealism in Auden’s ‘low dishonest decade’. Writing in the Literary Review, John Sweeney praised the memoir as, ‘A great, heart-stopping narrative of one young Englishman’s part in the war in Spain ... crafted by a poet, stamping an indelible image of the boredom, random cruelty and stupidity of war’

Laurie Lee Selected Poems

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Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1910065269
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Laurie Lee Selected Poems written by Laurie Lee and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee’s first love was always poetry, though he was only moderately successful as a poet. Lee’s first poem appeared in The Sunday Referee in 1934. Another poem was published in Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine in 1940 and his first volume of poems, The Sun My Monument, was launched in 1944. This was followed by The Bloom of Candles (1947) and My Many-coated Man (1955). Several poems written in the early 1940s reflect the atmosphere of the war, but also capture the beauty of the English countryside. The poem “Twelfth Night” from My Many-coated Man was set for unaccompanied mixed choir by American composer Samuel Barber in 1968.

The Autobiographical Trilogy

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504053915
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiographical Trilogy written by Laurie Lee and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man’s journey—from the international bestselling account of his idyllic childhood in rural England to “a poetic memoir” of the Spanish Civil War (The Washington Post). In his acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, “one of the great writers of the twentieth century” presents a vivid portrait of coming of age in Europe between the wars (The Independent). Beginning with the international bestselling, lyrical memoir of his childhood in the Cotswolds, Laurie Lee follows up with a fascinating travel narrative of crossing England and Spain on foot, and brings the story to a climax with a gripping chronicle of his part in the Spanish Civil War. Cider with Rosie: International Bestseller Three years old and wrapped in a Union Jack to protect him from the sun, Laurie Lee arrived in the village of Slad in the final summer of the First World War. The cottage his mother had rented had neither running water nor electricity, but it was surrounded by a lovely half-acre garden and big enough for the seven children in her care. In this verdant valley tucked into the rolling hills of the Cotswolds, Lee learned to look at life with a painter’s eye and a poet’s heart—qualities of vision that, decades later, would make him one of England’s most cherished authors. “A remarkable book . . . dazzling.” —The New York Times As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning: At age nineteen, Lee set out to walk the hundred miles from Slad to London, carrying only a change of clothes, his violin, a tent, a tin of biscuits, and some cheese. With a detour of an extra hundred miles to see the sea for the first time, Lee hopped a ferry to Spain because he knew enough Spanish to ask for a glass of water, and wandered the country for a year on foot. In one of the finest travel narratives of the twentieth century, Lee offers an unforgettable portrait of Spain on the eve of its civil war. “The vivid, sensitive, irresistibly readable story of what happened after [Lee] left home.” —The Daily Mail A Moment of War: Returning to a divided Spain in the bitter December of 1937 by crossing the Pyrenees from France, the idealistic young Lee came face to face with the reality of war, in this New York Times Notable Book. The International Brigade he sought to join was far from the gallant fighting force he’d envisioned but instead a collection of misfits without proper leadership or purpose. In a sudden confrontation with the enemy, he was left feeling anything but heroic. Captured more than once as a spy, Lee was lucky to escape with his life. “Written with brilliant economy and belongs to the remarkable literature which the Spanish Civil War inspired.” —The Independent

Discovering The Cotswold Way

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471023427
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Discovering The Cotswold Way written by Keith Pauling and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Can't Stay Long

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241237181
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book I Can't Stay Long written by Laurie Lee and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' In this much-loved volume, a mature Laurie Lee returns to the Gloucestershire childhood familiar to readers of Cider with Rosie, a world lost even at the time of writing to the march of twentieth-century technology. Lee also explores the post-war travels that took him to, amongst others, the Netherlands, Tuscany, Mexico and the West Indies. With pieces dating from the 1940s and 50s, Lee captures a world now for ever changed by war and mass tourism, 'when to be a traveller was not yet to be just a labelled unit'.

Down in the Valley

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241411726
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Down in the Valley written by Laurie Lee and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood village one summer morning to travel the world, but he was always drawn back to his beloved Slad Valley, eventually returning to make it his home. In this portrait of his Cotswold home, Laurie Lee guides us through its landscapes, and shares memories of his village youth - from his favourite pub to winter skating on the pond, the church through the seasons, local legends, learning the violin and playing jazz records in the privy on a wind-up gramophone. Filled with wry humour and a love of place, Down in the Valley is a writer's tribute to the landscape that shaped him, and where he found peace.

Originals

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052114048X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Originals written by Clare West and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originals introduces intermediate-level students to a wide range of authors and encourages them to develop their English by reading for pleasure. The book contains extracts from classic and modern fiction and non-fiction, written in English by authors from many different countries. There are extracts from classic novels and short stories, spy and ghost stories, thrillers, war, fantasy novels, a biography and contemporary fiction. The texts has been carefully selected for the level so that intermediate students, and those preparing for the Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET), will be able to understand them with the help of the notes and exercises.

Walking Wounded

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191501689
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Walking Wounded written by James Andrew Taylor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most importantly, the story of a poet. Vernon Scannell wrote some of the finest poetry to come out of the Second World War. He won the Chomondeley Prize and the Heinemann Award, and for half a century he was acknowledged as one of the leading poets in the country. His Collected Poems are still in print, and his poetry for both adults and children is regularly anthologised and appears on English Literature examination papers. Scannell died in 2007, and Walking Wounded draws on his personal diaries, poems, and other writings to offer the first detailed study of this complex, controversial, and occasionally tragic life. For the first time, the women who loved him tell their stories; his children describe growing up with a father who was funny, affectionate, sometimes violent, and often not there at all; and his fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney, Anthony Thwaite, Alan Brownjohn and Kit Wright, speak of the dedicated stylist, assured performer, and occasionally roistering drunk that they knew. Scannell was seriously wounded in Normandy shortly after D-Day, but the book looks at the deeper, mental scars from the War that he bore all his life, and of the suffering they caused to him and the people who loved him. It is an important book about an important poet, which investigates where poetry comes from, and the terrible price that sometimes has to be paid for it.

The Reading Cure

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474604668
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Book Synopsis The Reading Cure by : Laura Freeman

Download or read book The Reading Cure written by Laura Freeman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Freeman's pleasure in the food of literature ... is infectious. The Reading Cure will speak to anyone who has ever felt pain and found solace in a book' Bee Wilson At the age of fourteen, Laura Freeman was diagnosed with anorexia. But even when recovery seemed impossible, the one appetite she never lost was her love of reading. Slowly, book by book, Laura re-discovered how to enjoy food - and life - through literature.

Originals with Key

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521140501
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Originals with Key written by Clare West and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originals introduces intermediate-level students to a wide range of authors and encourages them to develop their English by reading for pleasure. The book contains extracts from classic and modern fiction and non-fiction, written in English by authors from many different countries. There are extracts from classic novels and short stories, spy and ghost stories, thrillers, war, fantasy novels, a biography and contemporary fiction. The texts has been carefully selected for the level so that intermediate students, and those preparing for the Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET), will be able to understand them with the help of the notes and exercises.