Laurie Lee





Laurie Lee

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born
June 26, 1914 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, The United Kingdom

died
May 13, 1997

gender
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Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE, was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). While the first volume famously recounts his childhood in the idyllic Slad Valley, the second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1934, and the third with his return in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigade.


Average rating: 3.92 · 1,936 ratings · 190 reviews · 20 distinct works
Cider with Rosie
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,194 ratings — published 1959 — 42 editions
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 444 ratings — published 1969 — 11 editions
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A Moment Of War
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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A Rose for Winter
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1955 — 6 editions
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I can't stay long
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions
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Cider with Rosie & As I Wal...
4.86 of 5 stars 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
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To War in Spain
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Selected Poems
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings2 editions
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The Edge of Day
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More books by Laurie Lee…
“The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.”
Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie

“Here I discovered water — a very different element from the green crawling scum that stank in the garden tub. You could pump it in pure blue gulps out of the ground, you could swing on the pump handle and it came out sparkling like liquid sky. And it broke and ran and shone on the tiled floor, or quivered in a jug, or weighted your clothes with cold. You could drink it, draw with it, froth it with soap, swim beetles across it, or fly it in bubbles in the air. You could put your head in it, and open your eyes, and see the sides of the bucket buckle, and hear your caught breath roar, and work your mouth like a fish, and smell the lime from the ground.”
Laurie Lee

“God's codpiece, you're very kind”
Laurie Lee, As I walked out one midsummer morning

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