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Fairy Tales have sparked interest in readers and writers since days Medieval. Herein, is a collection of stories based on well-known tales of faerie. As with the Brothers Grimm, some stories are light and aerie, while others follow a darker path. Draw a chair close to the fire, warmed cider in hand, and let yourself be carried into the realm of fairyland. First up, is Rumpelstiltskin. Not an easy name to say, let alone spell. We'll call him ...

Cinderella has her prince, but a fairy tale ending is not what she has in mind. Prince Robert of Camden doesn't want to go to the ball, but from the moment Cinderella turns up, he's caught in her web. Cinderella only has to keep him there forty days, the length of a royal engagement, until she can get to her heart's desire buried deep within the ruins of the Keep. Of course, princely blood will need to be spilled. Cinderella's spell is almos...

The best legends are of mystical places, where unicorns and dragons exist. The unicorn Astebery, emissary of the Maker, has a special gift to bestow on her chosen champion. Estellyn doesn't understand why she would be chosen. She thinks she's just a farmer's daughter with a penchant for exploring. Prince Jeremian wants to be a champion to save his brother. Neither of them realize they are about to be drawn into an adventure where everythin...

Die wunderbare Geschichte eines jungen Engländers, der eines Tages mit nichts als seiner Geige in die Welt zieht. Nichts ahnend vom Gang der Dinge, durchstreift er Spanien und beschreibt seine Erlebnisse auf unvergessliche Weise. Ein wunderschönes Buch, das in England begeisterte Aufnahme fand und ein Bestseller wurde - wieder entdeckt. Ein kleines Zelt, eine in eine Wolldecke eingewickelte Geige, Wäsche zum Wechseln und eine Dose Kekse: Das ...

If ever I saw blessing in the air I see it now in this still early day...'Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His Collected Poems open a new window on this community, as Lee tracks the seasons changing and the years turning over. Written from the 1930s to the 1960s, these heady works find the poet grappling with war, love, travel and his awe in the nature surrounding him. In 'Music in a Spanish Town', we see Lee playin...

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Laurie Lee erzählt von seinem weltabgeschiedenen, englischen Dorf, wo die Natur die Fantasie befeuert: blendendes Tageslicht, das die Kinder dazu verführt, sich streunend zu verlieren, die geräuschdurchwirkte Dunkelheit der Nacht, in die man sich besser nicht hinauswagt. Eine der schönsten Kindheitserinnerungen in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts.

A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood village one summer morning to travel the world, but he was always drawn back to his beloved Slad Valley, eventually returning to make it his home...

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 collectio...

Ein kleines Zelt, eine in eine Wolldecke eingewickelte Geige, Wäsche zum Wechseln und eine Dose Kekse: Das ist die ganze Ausrüstung Laurie Lees, als er an einem strahlenden Junimorgen sein Heimatdorf in Gloucestershire verlässt und sich auf den Weg nach London macht. "Neunzehn Jahre war ich alt, noch nicht trocken hinter den Ohren, aber ich verließ mich auf mein Glück." Mithilfe seines Geigenspiels schlägt er sich als liebenswürdiger, alle Ei...

Laurie Lee ha ventitré anni quando, un giorno d'inverno del 1937, parte alla volta della Spagna per combattere per la causa repubblicana. Questo libro è il racconto delle sue avventure durante quella tragica pagina di storia, in una terra dove tutto ciò che incontra è estremo: la natura asperrima dei luoghi, la durezza del clima, la scarsità di cibo. Ma lui non batte ciglio. Così un episodio atroce come la guerra civile spagnola, trattato per ...

Aus der Sicht eines Kindes erzählt Laurie Lee von seinem weltabgeschiedenen, englischen Dorf, wo er inmitten einer Natur aufwächst, die alles aufbietet, was eine kindliche Fantasie befeuern kann: das blendende Licht des Tages, das die Kinder dazu verführt, sich streunend zu verlieren, die geräuschdurchwirkte Dunkelheit der Nacht, in die man sich besser nicht hinauswagt. Hier hat sich seine energische Mutter mit ihren sieben Kindern niedergelas...

How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucked and gobbled, and games played until the last drop of dusk. Lee's joyful and stirring writing captures the very essence of England's golden season. Selected from the book Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee. VIN...

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A new edition of the classic book.

Laurie Lee greeted the birth of his daughter Jessy with this lyrical and enchanting essay, now published in a hardback gift edition with ribbon marker. It is published in time for Mothering Sunday, and also June 2014 marks the centenary of Lee's birth.