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Cider With Rosie by Lee, Laurie is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 passi

Who reads Cider With Rosie?

Author

Lee, Laurie

Publisher

VINTAGE (RAND); Vintage Books / Random House

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780099285663

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, History

Rating

3.93 / 5 (5,592 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14