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Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity and 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.
'It sings in the memory' Sunday Times
Laurie Lee's matchless memories of his childhood, told in glittering prose and with a wonderfully wicked sense of comedy, have made Cider with Rosie one of the most famous of all autobiographies. 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. - Amazon (from The Midwest Book Review)
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Biography, English Authors, Childhood and youth, Social life and customs, Youth, Biographies, Écrivains anglais, Enfance et jeunesse, Authors, biography, Lee, laurie, 1914-1997, England, social life and customs, Manners and customs, Biography and autobiographyPeople
Laurie Lee, Laurie Lee (1914-)Places
West Country, Gloucestershire, (England), Cotswolds, West Country (England), Cotswold Hills (England)Times
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Cider with Rosie
March 2004, ISIS Audio Books
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Cider with Rosie
September 5, 2002, VINTAGE (RAND), Vintage Books / Random House
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Cider With Rosie
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Cider with Rosie
1999, Akadine Press
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Cider with Rosie (BBC Radio Collection)
April 6, 1998, BBC Audiobooks
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Cider with Rosie (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
January 29, 1998, Penguin Books Ltd
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Cider with Rosie (Heinemann Plays)
November 3, 1993, Heinemann Educational Secondary Division
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The illustrated Cider with Rosie
1984, Crown Publishers
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Cider with Rosie: a boyhood in the west of England
1980, Time-Life Books
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Cider with Rosie
December 1979, Longman, Penguin Books
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