An edition of Cider with Rosie (1959)

The illustrated Cider with Rosie

1st American ed.
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An edition of Cider with Rosie (1959)

The illustrated Cider with Rosie

1st American ed.
  • 4.25 ·
  • 8 Ratings
  • 179 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

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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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Language
English
Pages
224

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Cover of: Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie
2008, David R. Godine, Publisher
in English
Cover of: Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie
September 5, 2002, VINTAGE (RAND), Vintage Books / Random House
in English
Cover of: Cider with Rosie (Heinemann Plays)
Cider with Rosie (Heinemann Plays)
November 3, 1993, Heinemann Educational Secondary Division
Hardcover - New Ed edition
Cover of: The illustrated Cider with Rosie
The illustrated Cider with Rosie
1984, Crown Publishers
Hardcover in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie
1962, Penguin, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie
1962, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie
1962, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie
1959, Hogarth Press
in English
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Table of Contents

First light
First names
Village school
The kitchen
Grannies in the Wainscot
Public death, private murder
Mother
Winter and summer
Sick boy
The uncles
Outings and festivals
First bite at the apple
Last days

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821, B/.914
Library of Congress
PR6023.E285

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
224 p.
Number of pages
224
Dimensions
27 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21486653M
Internet Archive
illustratedcider00leel
ISBN 10
0517555298
ISBN 13
9780517555293
OCLC/WorldCat
10533679
Library Thing
101961
Goodreads
556540

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