As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
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Author : Laurie Lee
language : en
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date : 2011
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning written by Laurie Lee and has been published by David R. Godine Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far." Despite this romantic and optimistic opening, what Lee finds is the most primitive and feudal country in Europe, a peninsula untouched by the modern world, a land of labor without dignity, a church devoid of compassion, and a country ripe for revolutionary change.
A Moment Of War
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Author : Laurie Lee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1992-07-02
A Moment Of War written by Laurie Lee and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘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’
My Midsummer Morning Rediscovering A Life Of Adventure
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Author : Alastair Humphreys
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2019-05-30
My Midsummer Morning Rediscovering A Life Of Adventure written by Alastair Humphreys and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-30 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019 Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits – busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play.
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
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Author : Laurie Lee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-06-26
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning written by Laurie Lee and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
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Author : Laurie Lee
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-06-10
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning written by Laurie Lee and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author of Cider with Rosie continues his bestselling autobiographical trilogy with “a wondrous adventure” through Spain on the eve of its civil war (Library Journal). On a bright Sunday morning in June 1934, Laurie Lee left the village home so lovingly portrayed in his bestselling memoir, Cider with Rosie. His plan was to walk the hundred miles from Slad to London, with a detour of an extra hundred miles to see the sea for the first time. He was nineteen years old and brought with him only what he could carry on his back: a tent, a change of clothes, his violin, a tin of biscuits, and some cheese. He spent the first night in a ditch, wide awake and soaking wet. From those unlikely beginnings, Laurie Lee fashioned not just the adventure of a lifetime, but one of the finest travel narratives of the twentieth century. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, written more than thirty years after the events it describes, is an elegant and irresistibly charming portrait of life on the road—first in England, where the familiar landscapes and people somehow made Lee feel far from home, and then in Spain, whose utter foreignness afforded a new kind of comfort. In that brief period of peace, a young man was free to go wherever he wanted to in Europe. Lee picked Spain because he knew enough Spanish to ask for a glass of water. What he did not know, and what would become clear only after a year spent tramping across the beautiful and rugged countryside—from the Galician port city of Vigo, over the Sierra de Guadarrama and into Madrid, and along the Costa del Sol—was that the Spanish Republic would soon need idealistic young men like Lee as badly as he needed it.
Red Sky At Sunrise
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Author : Laurie Lee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1993-10-28
Red Sky At Sunrise written by Laurie Lee and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-10-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'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
The Spanish Civil War
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Author : Stanley G. Payne
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-06
The Spanish Civil War written by Stanley G. Payne and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-06 with History categories.
This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in the history of Western Europe. Stanley Payne explains the character of the Spanish revolution and the complex web of republican politics, while also examining the development of Franco's counter-revolutionary dictatorship. Payne gives attention to the multiple meanings and interpretations of war and examines why the conflict provoked such strong reactions at the time, and long after. The book also explains the military history of the war and its place in the history of military development, the non-intervention policy of the democracies and the role of German, Italian and Soviet intervention, concluding with an analysis of the place of the war in European affairs, in the context of twentieth-century revolutionary civil wars.
I Can T Stay Long
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Author : Laurie Lee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-08-06
I Can T Stay Long written by Laurie Lee and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'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'.
Village Christmas
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Author : Laurie Lee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-11-05
Village Christmas written by Laurie Lee and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the author of Cider With Rosie, Village Christmas is a moving, lyrical portrait of England through the changing years and seasons. Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was nineteen, but it remained with him throughout his life until, many years later, he returned for good. This collection brings to life the sights, sounds, landscapes and traditions of his home - from centuries-old May Day rituals to his own patch of garden, from carol singing in crunching snow to pub conversations and songs. Here too he writes about the mysteries of love, living in wartime Chelsea, Winston Churchill's wintry funeral and his battle, in old age, to save his beloved Slad Valley from developers. Told with a warm sense of humour and a powerful sense of history, Village Christmas brings us a picture of a vanished world.
Cider With Rosie
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Author : Laurie Lee
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Release Date : 1993
Cider With Rosie written by Laurie Lee and has been published by Heinemann Educational Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.
The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This is a dramatization of Laurie Lee's warm and humorous memories of his boyhood in a Cotswold village.