Major works
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, raised in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire. 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.
Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge Of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960). It is the first book of a trilogy consisting of As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). It was adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans and was done by Latymer Upper School.
The novel is an account of Lee's childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire, England, in the period soon after the First World War. It chronicles the traditional village life which disappeared with the advent of new developments, such as the coming of the motor car, and also of the experience of childhood seen from many years later. The identity of Rosie was revealed years later to be Lee's distant cousin Rosalind Buckland.
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Lee, Laurie Cider with Rosie, first edition, signed by the author on half-title, illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, a fine copy, 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1959.
Sold for £340 Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 24th November 2005. Copy pictured right.
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