As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning - Hardcover

Lee, Laurie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393022331 ISBN 13: 9780393022339

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1985

Synopsis

Autobiographical account of the young poet's journey to Spain on the eve of its civil war

About this title

About the Author:

Laurie Lee was born in 1914 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and was brought up with his mother and many siblings. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then traveled on foot through Spain as described in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. He married Catherine Polge and had one daughter; he died in 1997.

From Publishers Weekly:

Originally published in 1969, Lee's charming account of his travels in Spain in 1935 became almost as popular as his delightful Cider with Rosie. This fussily illustrated edition is an insult to an enjoyable prose work by a distinguished poet. Rather than eliciting the Spain that Lee visited, these old-fashioned illustrations from a variety of sources detract from a text that is rendered unreadable by a 34-pica measure, surmounted by running headlines (finically set in caps and italic initial caps), topped by a double line that serves as "walking" surface for a little man with stick (presumably representing the author) who promenades remorselessly across the page, pica by pica, as the reader progresses with the story. Each color illustration is surrounded by a white mat-like area enclosed, in turn, by a triple-rule frame set against a tan backgrounda tacky effect. The paperback reprint of the original edition is available for those who prefer unencumbered reading. October 28
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About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0393022331
• ISBN 13: 9780393022339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192