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I Can't Stay Long

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'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'

When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in the outside world that remained undiminished throughout his writing life. This enchanting collection of his 'first loves and obsessions' brings together pieces including recollections of his Gloucestershire childhood celebrated in Cider With Rosie; reflections on life, love and death, such as a moving report from the tragic Welsh village of Aberfan; and evocative travel writings on Tuscany, Mexico and the West Indies, amongst others, before they were transformed by mass tourism. Together they capture a world that is lost forever.

'One of Britain's finest writers' Daily Mail

'There's a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down' New Statesman

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780241237175
Publication date: 6th August 2015
Author: Laurie Lee
Publisher: Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 211 pages
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Genres: Memoirs
Classic travel writing