Collected Stories -- Dylan Thomas

<p>This gathering of all Dylan Thomas's stories--ranging chronologically from the dark, almost surrealistic tales of Thomas's youth to such gloriously rumbustious celebrations of life as "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and "Adventures in the Skin Trade"--charts the progress of "The Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive" toward his mastery of the comic idiom. Here, too, are stories originally written for radio and television and, in a short appendix, the schoolboy pieces first published in the <em>Swansea Grammar School Magazine</em>. A high point of the collection is Thomas's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog," a vivid collage of memories from his Swansea childhood that combines the lyricism of his poetry with the sparkle and sly humor of <em>Under Milk Wood</em>. Also here is the fiction from <em>Quite Early One Morning</em>, a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death.</p><p>Altogether there are more than forty stories, providing a rich and varied literary feast and showing Dylan Thomas in all his intriguing variety-somber fantasist, joyous word-spinner, and irrepressible comedian of smalltown Wales. </p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Dylan Thomas<br><b>Publisher:</b> New Directions Publishing Corporation<br><b>Published:</b> 11/07/2023<br><b>Pages:</b> 384<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.83lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.99h x 5.40w x 0.88d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780811237529