Cider With Rosie
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 4th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A childhood frozen in amber, shimmering with the golden haze of a vanishing England — Cider with Rosie is Laurie Lee's luminous memoir of growing up in a remote Cotswold village in the years immediately following the First World War. With the intimacy of a confessional and the lyricism of a poet, Lee chronicles his earliest years in the hamlet of Slad, Gloucestershire — from the bewildering joy of arrival to the bittersweet awakening of adolescence — painting an unforgettable portrait of a tight-knit rural community on the cusp of irreversible change. Lee's prose is nothing short of incandescent: richly sensory, rhythmically precise, and saturated with the sights, smells, and textures of a world that would soon be swept away by modernity. This is autobiography elevated to the level of art, standing alongside the great works of 20th-century British literature as both a social document and a deeply personal reckoning with memory, loss, and the passage of time. Illustrated with drawings by John Ward, this first edition from The Hogarth Press is a treasured artefact — and for those who have never encountered Lee's singular voice, it is an introduction that will not soon be forgotten.
Author: Laurie Lee
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, The Hogarth Press
Genre: Biography
Edition: 4th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A childhood frozen in amber, shimmering with the golden haze of a vanishing England — Cider with Rosie is Laurie Lee's luminous memoir of growing up in a remote Cotswold village in the years immediately following the First World War. With the intimacy of a confessional and the lyricism of a poet, Lee chronicles his earliest years in the hamlet of Slad, Gloucestershire — from the bewildering joy of arrival to the bittersweet awakening of adolescence — painting an unforgettable portrait of a tight-knit rural community on the cusp of irreversible change. Lee's prose is nothing short of incandescent: richly sensory, rhythmically precise, and saturated with the sights, smells, and textures of a world that would soon be swept away by modernity. This is autobiography elevated to the level of art, standing alongside the great works of 20th-century British literature as both a social document and a deeply personal reckoning with memory, loss, and the passage of time. Illustrated with drawings by John Ward, this first edition from The Hogarth Press is a treasured artefact — and for those who have never encountered Lee's singular voice, it is an introduction that will not soon be forgotten.