As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning [electronic resource]
Lee, Laurie2014
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The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world'Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London.There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . .
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[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Classics, 2014
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Penguin Book of the British Short Story
ISBN:
9780141397030
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English
BRN:
1472136
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