The Illustrated Cider With Rosie [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1999] Laurie Lee ...

The Illustrated Cider With Rosie

Laurie Lee

Cresset Press

Cider With Rosie

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage Books

A Rose for Winter

VINTAGE (RAND)

First published in three separate collections, the poems in this anthology span the first decade, as well as many changes of mood, in the work of Laurie Lee.

Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Gardners Books

<p>A Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year</p>

Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year

Memoirs

Penguin Classics

<p>Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year (Penguin Modern Classics)</p>

Village Christmas

Arts & Literature

Collected Poems

Penguin

Laurie Lee (Pocket poets)

Studio Vista

The Illustrated Cider with Rosie

Random House Value Publishing

One of eight children, Laurie Lee was born in 1914, in Slad, Gloucestershire, then a remote corner of England. As his father was absent, the large family--five children from his father's first marriage and three from his second one was brought up by his capable mother. "We lived where he had left us; a relic of his provincial youth; a sprawling cumbersome, countrified brood too incongruous to carry with him; and I, for one, scarcely missed him. I was perfectly content in this world of women . . . bullied and tumbled through the hand-to-mouth days, patched or dressed-up, scolded, admired, swept off my feet in sudden passions of kisses, or dumped forgotten among the unwashed pots."Lee's memoir opens when he was just a baby younger than three years old and ends as he becomes a young man experiencing his first kiss. "I turned to look at Rosie. She was yellow and dusty with buttercups and seemed to be purring in the gloom; her hair was rich as a wild bee's nest and her eyes were full of stings. I did not know what to do about her, nor did I know what not to do. She looked smooth and precious, a thing of unplumbable mysteries, and perilous as quicksand."This beloved classic describes a lost world, a world reflecting the innocence and wonder of childhood, and illuminating an era without electricity or telephones. This is England on the cusp of the modern era, but it could have been anywhere. This may explain why Cider with Rosie became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1959, selling over six million copies in the UK alone, and continues to be read by children and adults all over the world. A charming look at the loss of innocence into a world of understanding.- The Midwest Book Review

Cider with Rosie (Queen's Classics)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Chatto Educ.

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