Laurie Lee - As I walked out one midsummer morning (unabridged) - Read by Laurie Lee

Laurie Lee - As I walked out one midsummer morning unabridged - Read by Laurie Lee

Source CD
Duration approx 7:30 hours
FhG MPEG 1 Layer III 48 Kbps CBR
44100Hz, 16-bit, Mono


The book

It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one Spanish phrase, he decided to see Spain. For a year he tramped through a country in which the signs of impending civil war were clearly visible. Thirty years later Laurie Lee captured the atmosphere of the Spain he saw with all the freshness and beauty of a young man's vision, creating a lyrical and lucid picture of the beautiful and violent country that was to involve him inextricably.


The author and reader

Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE 26 June 1914 ? 13 May 1997 was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, raised in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie 1959 , As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning 1969 and A Moment of War 1991 . While the first volume famously recounts his childhood in the idyllic Slad Valley, the second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1934, and the third with his return in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigade.