Most Popular Books by Laurie Lee

Ein kleines Zelt, eine in eine Wolldecke eingewickelte Geige, Wäsche zum Wechseln und eine Dose Kekse: Das ist die ganze Ausrüstung Laurie Lees, als er an einem strahlenden Junimorgen sein Heimatdorf in Gloucestershire verlässt und sich auf den Weg nach London macht. "Neunzehn Jahre war ich alt, noch nicht trocken hinter den Ohren, aber ich verließ mich auf mein Glück." Mithilfe seines Geigenspiels schlägt er sich als liebenswürdiger, alle Eindrücke intensiv erlebender Vagabund zunächst bis London durch. Da Laurie weder ein anderes Land noch eine andere Sprache kennt, wählt er Spanien als nächstes Reiseziel, er betritt es in Vigo und durchwandert es bis nach Gibraltar, macht Bekanntschaften mit Bauern und Bettlern, den Armen und Ärmsten, musiziert für Brot und Wein und schläft in Olivenhainen und einfachsten Bauernhöfen. Es ist das Jahr 1935, und der kommende Bürgerkrieg wirft seine Schatten voraus.

«Los últimos días de mi infancia fueron también los últimos días de la aldea. Yo pertenecía a aquella generación que vio, por casualidad, el final de una vida milenaria. [...] Yo, mi familia, mi generación, nacimos en un mundo de silencio; en un mundo de trabajo duro y necesaria paciencia, un mundo de espaldas dobladas hacia la tierra, cuidado manual de los cultivos, dependencia de la meteorología y de la cosecha; un mundo en que las aldeas eran naves en paisajes vacíos y las distancias entre ellas largas; un mundo de caminos marcados por cascos y ruedas de carretas, no hollados por la gasolina y el petróleo, apenas transitados por las personas y casi nunca por placer, por los que lo que más rápido se movía eran los caballos.»Laurie Lee revive en esta novela, una de las más queridas y leídas por sus compatriotas, su infancia en una aldea de la campiña inglesa. Pese a nacer en 1914, un mes antes del comienzo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, sus recuerdos son amables y llenos de cariño hacia un mundo que iba a desaparecer.«Un libro encantador, una exquisita despedida, no sólo de la infancia y de la adolescencia, sino también de una Inglaterra que ya ha desaparecido.»J.B. Priestley

Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten von der Insel, erzählt von Saki, Laurie Lee, Martha Gellhorn, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Taylor, Patrick Hamilton und Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Laurie Lee was a celebrated English novelist, screenwriter, and poet, whose autobiographical novels Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and A Moment of War found enormous popularity in England. However, poetry was really his favorite form of writing, an area where success frustratingly eluded him. Laurie Lee Selected Poems collects forty of Lee's best poems, and provides the perfect introduction to this beloved authors lesser known works. The collection contains works such as Lee's first poem, which appeared The Sunday Referee in 1934, poems first published in Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine in 1940, and selections from his first volume of poems, The Sun My Monument. Several poems written in the early 1940s reflect the atmosphere of the war, but also capture the beauty of the English countryside. Also included is the poem "Twelfth Night" from My Many-coated Man, which was set for unaccompanied mixed choir by American composer Samuel Barber in 1968. This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Lee's birth, and consequently a resurgence of interest in Lee's body of work. Laurie Lee Selected Poems is the perfect choice for those wanting a new look at an engaging author.

Within the pages the reader will feel the raw emotions of a mother losing her only son in a tragic car accident.Josh was one of the four University of South Carolina Upstate athletes killed in October 2015.The reader will be her shadow and truly experience the heartache and life changing sequence of events to just finish their own race called life.

The best legends are of mystical places, where unicorns and dragons exist. The unicorn Astebery, emissary of the Maker, has a special gift to bestow on her chosen champion. Estellyn doesn't understand why she would be chosen. She thinks she's just a farmer's daughter with a penchant for exploring. Prince Jeremian wants to be a champion to save his brother. Neither of them realize they are about to be drawn into an adventure where everything they love could be destroyed if they fail. To succeed, they'll have to venture into the Dark Realm where Lord Morgeth prepares an army to ravage Overworld. But there are other things lurking in the dark that could be used... for good or evil. Riven, once a goblin, has been changed into the form of a man to find the one who released the unicorn from Morgeth's trap. Other goblins are searching the Dark Realm for a baby dragon, whose power can unleash a rage of fire in Overworld. Good thing legends are not always what they seem.

A collection of Laurie Lee's occasional writings includes recollections of his Gloucestershire childhood made famous by Cider With Rosie, and reflections on life, love and death, such as a moving report from the tragic Welsh village of Aberfan. The book includes travel writings on Tuscany, Mexico and the West Indies, amongst others, before they were transformed by mass tourism.

Cider With Laurie examines the eventful life and ever popular writing of Laurie Lee, the poet and author, who died in May 1997. This book reflects him through the eyes of the people who knew him at different stages throughout his long life.