Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of War - Couverture souple

Lee, Laurie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140172858 ISBN 13 : 9780140172850

Editeur : Penguin, 1993

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he 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, as he recounted in A Moment of War. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Laurie Lee published four collections of poems: The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poems (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975), and 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) and A Moment of War (1991). He died in May 1997.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Spanning the first twenty-three years of his remarkable life, Laurie Lee’s celebrated autobiographical trilogy is presented here in one delightful volume. Beginning with ‘Cider with Rosie’, Laurie Lee writes evocatively of his idyllic childhood in the Cotswolds of the twenties, a world of rich sensuousness and native innocence. ‘As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning’ picks up the story as he leaves his valley for London and then for Spain. There, equipped only with a violin and his wits, he crossed the dramatic landscape of a vibrant and still almost medieval Spain for which he developed an abiding affection. In the winter of 1937 he returned to a country now in the grip of Civil War and joined the International Brigade, describing in ‘A Moment of War’ his journey into the dark side of Spain with unsparing honesty and poignancy.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140172858
• ISBN 13: 9780140172850
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544