Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780140016826ISBN:0140016821
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in Spanish, English. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. light readers crease. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140016826ISBN:0140016821
Description: 0140016821 Synopsis Laurie Lee's lyrical, funny, classic memoir of growing up in the English countryside in the early 20th century. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: S Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, Middlesex, England
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140016826ISBN:0140016821
Description: Ward, John [illustrator] Good+ 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Edgewear, creasing, spine cocked. read more
Description: Ward, John. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Sturdy. Clean text. Binding good. Pages tanned. Minor/generalized wear to cover. Stamps and price on inside front cover and 1st pg. Trade paperback. Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Ward, John. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 231p., 18 cm. A very nice, clean and tight copy with age-related tanning. The spine is creased, but otherwise the cover shows miminal wear. "This poet, whose prose is quick and bright as a snake...a gay, impatient, jaunty and in parts slightly mocking book; a prose poem that flashes and winks like a prism. "-Sunday Times (London) read more
Edition: Reprinted
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Time Life Books, Virginia
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780582536784ISBN:0582536782
Description: Illustrated. Very Good. No Jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK COVER. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT. read more
"I think Laurie Lee was in his forties when he wrote this memoir but it reminded of a favoured grandfather reminiscing about his childhood, in a rocking chair by a roaring fire, children at his feet as great slabs of rain hit the window. Perhaps the best thing to say about this book is that you can feel right back in his childhood with him.
I can't say I enjoyed this book as much as 'As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning' but that's probably not surprising. This book is a lot more sedate, not inspiring or wondrous, nothing much happens, but it leaves you with a feeling similar to that warm glow of a nice whisky.
I think what I most like about Laurie Lee is the way he weighs his words. There is just this lovely bouncing rhythm to his writing that stops and starts and goes faster or slower in lovely patterns under his control.
This isn't most exciting book I've ever read, its quaint, and sometimes in a very old fashioned way - but it's not soppy about the past, its quite frank and as much as I love his writing I admired it for that."
"I've loved this book from the first time I read it, in England, at age 14--I continued to love it several years afterwards when i read it again, and again."
"Laurie Lee grew up in a rural part of England during the time just after the Great War. His father abandoned his mother with eight children to raise. Lee was almost always hungry and cold. But life never seemed hard; somehow it seemed joyous and delightful.
I was especially taken with the chapter about the devilments children and young people got into during Lee's time. Back in Lee's day, as today, terrible things happened. But somehow the village and its people just seemed to deal with them, not making them into events of enormous evil as we seem to do today.
I loved reading about the day to day living of Lee during his childhood. Everything seemed so much more alive then, with things to taste and touch and smell. Lee revels in his life. The stories he tells makes the time seem glorious."
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