I Can't Stay Long
$32.54
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2015
Summary
From the author of Cider with Rosie, a look at a lost age of travel and the English countryside.
“They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone … I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.”
In this much-loved volume, a mature Laurie Lee returns to the Gloucestershire childhood familiar to readers of Cider with Rosie, a world lost even at the time of writing to the march of twentieth-century technology…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241237175 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241237173 |
| Author: | Laurie Lee |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War.
Laurie Lee published four collections of poems- The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poets (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), The Firstborn (1964), I Can’t Stay Long (1975), and Two Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography- Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991).
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