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Summer
eBook - Vintage Minis, Vintage Minis
ISBN/EAN: 9781473548701
Umbreit-Nr.: 4328733
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 96 S., 2.06 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 08.06.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
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- Zusatztext
- <p>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. Lees joyful and stirring writing captures the very essence of Englands golden season.</p><p>Selected from the book<i>Cider with Rosie</i>by Laurie Lee</p><p><b>VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.</b></p><p>A series of short books by the worlds greatest writers on the experiences that make us human</p><p>Also in the Vintage Minis series: <i>Liberty</i>by Virginia Woolf <i>Eating</i>by Nigella Lawson <i>Swimming</i>by Roger Deakin <i>Drinking</i>by John Cheever</p>
- Kurztext
- 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. PriestlyVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
- Autorenportrait
- 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, as described in his book<i>As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning</i>. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter.<i>Cider With Rosie</i>(1959) has sold over six million copies worldwide, and was followed by two other volumes of autobiography:<i>As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning</i>(1969) and<i>A Moment of War</i>(1991). Laurie Lee also published four collections of poems,<i>The Sun My Monument</i>(1944),<i>The Bloom of Candles</i>(1947),<i>My Many-Coated Man</i>(1955) and<i>Packet Poems</i>(1960) as well as<i>The Voyage of Magellan</i>(1948), a verse play for radio,<i>A Rose for Winter</i>(1955), which records his travels in Andalusia,<i>The Firstborn</i>(1964),<i>I Can't Stay Long</i>(1975), a collection of his writing, and<i>Two Women</i>(1983). Laurie Lee died in May 1997. In its obituary the<i>Guardian</i>wrote, 'He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precisions'.