Many of the episodes are also richly comic, yet there is also a sense of tragedy, a sense that the certainty and routine that once controlled village life have now vanished.

The cottage garden, for example, as seen through the eyes and other senses of a young child, becomes a world of its own. What is perhaps most remarkable about it, and has kept it a firm readers’ favorite since it was first published, is the rich lushness of the description. The book nostalgically evokes the simplicity and innocence of a vanished rural world amid the swirl of technological change and was followed by two more volumes in what became an autobiographical trilogy, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), a description of Lee’s trip to London to seek his fortune, and A Moment of War (1991), an account of his experiences in Spain during that country’s Civil War.Īn extremely vivid description of the author’s life in a small English village in the early part of the 20th century, Cider With Rosie depicts a world that was soon to vanish: a world where transport was limited to the horse and cart, and where there were few reasons to travel away from one’s home. An account of the author’s blissful childhood in an isolated village, the book was as instant classic, widely read in British schools.

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