A Rose for Winter

Informationen zum Autor Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age on nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, as described in his book As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning . In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Cider With Rosie (1959) has sold over six million copies worldwide, and was followed by two other volumes of autobiography: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). Laurie Lee also published four collections of poems, The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Packet Poems (1960) as well as The Voyage of Magellan (1948), a verse play for radio, A Rose for Winter (1955), which records his travels in Andalusia, The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975), a collection of his writing, and Two Women (1983). Laurie Lee died in May 1997. In its obituary the Guardian wrote, 'He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precisions'. Klappentext Andalusia is a passion -- and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. Zusammenfassung He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness-the paradoxes deep in the fiery bones of Spain.

Product details

• Authors: Laurie Lee
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2003
• EAN: 9780099479710
• ISBN: 978-0-09-947971-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Spain, Memoirs, HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Travel writing, Modern warfare, Specific wars and campaigns, Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Spanish Civil War period), Civil wars