Bücher von Laurie Lee

Fairy Tales have sparked interest in readers and writers since days Medieval. Herein, is a collection of stories based on well-known tales of faerie. As with the Brothers Grimm, some stories are light and aerie, while others follow a darker path.Draw a chair close to the fire, warmed cider in hand, and let yourself be carried into the realm of fairyland.First up, is Rumpelstiltskin. Not an easy name to say, let alone spell. We'll call him Rom. Rather than a goblin eager to devour a newborn baby, our Rom has come to help. But who has he come for? And will they survive long enough to win happily ever after?Our next story is The Pied Piper. Children are disappearing. Morgan and Dale must search out the truth to save them, even though they may lose what is most precious to them. Difficult battles are worth the fight. Will saving the children be worth their sacrifices?Story three is Beast. We all love a Beauty and the Beast tale. This one is sure to please.The fourth story is Sleeping Beauty's Potion. Sleeping Beauty isn't to blame that a dark fairy placed a sleeping curse on her. But with a special potion, she isn't the one to sleep. Another lies on the bed in her stead until life has been drained. As long as a sacrifice remains, Sleeping Beauty will enjoy her youthful life. Is there no one who can bring an end to her wicked plot?The final story in Once Upon a Time in Fairyland is The Frog Curse. Catherine unwittingly finds herself a victim to a longstanding curse, one that turns its host into a frog. Unwilling to allow the curse to move to another victim, can Catherine escape the curse or is she fated to disappear into the misty wetlands forever?

The best legends are of mystical places, where unicorns and dragons exist.The unicorn Astebery, emissary of the Maker, has a special gift to bestow on her chosen champion.Estellyn doesn't understand why she would be chosen. She thinks she's just a farmer's daughter with a penchant for exploring. Prince Jeremian wants to be a champion to save his brother. Neither of them realize they are about to be drawn into an adventure where everything they love could be destroyed if they fail. To succeed, they'll have to venture into the Dark Realm where Lord Morgeth prepares an army to ravage Overworld.But there are other things lurking in the dark that could be used... for good or evil. Riven, once a goblin, has been changed into the form of a man to find the one who released the unicorn from Morgeth's trap. Other goblins are searching the Dark Realm for a baby dragon, whose power can unleash a rage of fire in Overworld. Good thing legends are not always what they seem.

Cinderella has her prince, but a fairy tale ending is not what she has in mind.Prince Robert of Camden doesn't want to go to the ball, but from the moment Cinderella turns up, he's caught in her web. Cinderella only has to keep him there forty days, the length of a royal engagement, until she can get to her heart's desire buried deep within the ruins of the Keep. Of course, princely blood will need to be spilled. Cinderella's spell is almost perfect, except for...Marissa DeGanne, his stepsister. The spell is not working on her, and she distracts Prince Robert. Cinderella needs to get Marissa away from Monmoore Palace. Out of sight, out of mind, and then the young woman can be properly killed. But Marissa won't give up without a fight, and she has a Guardian to help her.Can Robert and Marissa break Cinderella's spell, and have their own happily ever after?This tale has all the right elements: the prince, a stepsister, glass slippers, Cinderella, the Ball, and a fairy godmother in the form of a Guardian. It's the twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat, turning the pages, long after the final toll for midnight rings.

Ein kleines Zelt, eine in eine Wolldecke eingewickelte Geige, Wäsche zum Wechseln und eine Dose Kekse: Das ist die ganze Ausrüstung Laurie Lees, als er an einem strahlenden Junimorgen sein Heimatdorf in Gloucestershire verlässt und sich auf den Weg nach London macht. "Neunzehn Jahre war ich alt, noch nicht trocken hinter den Ohren, aber ich verließ mich auf mein Glück." Mithilfe seines Geigenspiels schlägt er sich als liebenswürdiger, alle Eindrücke intensiv erlebender Vagabund zunächst bis London durch. Da Laurie weder ein anderes Land noch eine andere Sprache kennt, wählt er Spanien als nächstes Reiseziel, er betritt es in Vigo und durchwandert es bis nach Gibraltar, macht Bekanntschaften mit Bauern und Bettlern, den Armen und Ärmsten, musiziert für Brot und Wein und schläft in Olivenhainen und einfachsten Bauernhöfen. Es ist das Jahr 1935, und der kommende Bürgerkrieg wirft seine Schatten voraus.

Aus der Sicht eines Kindes erzählt Laurie Lee von seinem weltabgeschiedenen, englischen Dorf, wo er inmitten einer Natur aufwächst, die alles aufbietet, was eine kindliche Fantasie befeuern kann: das blendende Licht des Tages, das die Kinder dazu verführt, sich streunend zu verlieren, die geräuschdurchwirkte Dunkelheit der Nacht, in die man sich besser nicht hinauswagt. Hier hat sich seine energische Mutter mit ihren sieben Kindern niedergelassen. Ihr Mann hat sich nach London abgesetzt und überlässt es dieser ebenso schillernden wie einfachen Frau, die Kinder großzuziehen. Cider mit Rosie ist eine der schönsten Kindheitserinnerungen in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. In viele Sprachen übersetzt und mehrfach verfilmt, ist Laurie Lees weltberühmter Roman in einer neuen Übersetzung zu entdecken.

Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past.