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Laurie Lee


Born
in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
June 26, 1914

Died
May 13, 1997

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry, Literature & Fiction


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. ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 30,594 ratings · 2,775 reviews · 79 distinct works • Similar authors
Cider with Rosie
3.91 avg rating — 15,145 ratings — published 1959 — 183 editions
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As I Walked Out One Midsumm...
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4.21 avg rating — 8,831 ratings — published 1969 — 19 editions
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A Moment of War
3.87 avg rating — 2,137 ratings — published 1991 — 38 editions
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A Rose for Winter
3.95 avg rating — 988 ratings — published 1955 — 30 editions
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Village Christmas and Other...
3.92 avg rating — 925 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions
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Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider w...
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I Can't Stay Long
3.88 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 1975 — 32 editions
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Down in the Valley: A Write...
3.77 avg rating — 310 ratings — 7 editions
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Summer: Vintage Minis
3.45 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions
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Laurie Lee: Selected Poems
3.79 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions
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Series by Laurie Lee

Cider with Rosie As I Walked Out One Midsumm... A Moment of War
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“Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things”
― Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie
tags: beauty, beauty-in-nature, boyhood, childhood-memories, cider-with-rosie, countryside, landscape, laurie-lee, nature, pastoral
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“At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.”
― Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long
tags: love, true-love
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“For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.”
― Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
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