Set in the authors native Swansea in South Wales, the ten autobiographical stories in this much-loved collection chart his journey from boyhood movingly and at times comically evoked in tales such as The Peaches and A Visit to Grandpas to early adulthood. Along the way, in Extraordinary Little Cough, among others, the vicissitudes of adolescence and a burgeoning sexuality are explored with characteristic tenderness and candour, while Where Tawe Flows and One Warm Saturday affectionately document the evolution of the young writers literary sensibility. Young love, male friendship, death, religion the gamut of youthful experience is here encapsulated, inflected throughout with Thomass typical humanity.
Presented in this volume alongside the rest of the body of fiction produced by the Welsh poet in his short and turbulent life, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940), which has proven to be second in popularity only to Thomass masterpiece, Under Milk Wood, demonstrates that he was as much a master of prose as he was of poetry.
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New annotated edition of a timeless classic, now part of Almas successful Evergreen series.
Early Stories: Brember, Jarley's, After the Fair, The Enemies, In the
Garden, Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar, The End of the River, The Tree, The
Visitor, The Dress, The Lemon, The Burning Baby, The Horse's Ha, The
Orchards, The School for Witches, The Mouse and the Woman, A Prospect of the
Sea, The Holy Six, Prologue to an Adventure, The Map of Love, In the
Direction of the Beginning, An Adventure from a Work in Progress, The True
Story, The Vest
Adventures in the Skin Trade: A Fine Beginning, Plenty of Furniture, Four
Lost Souls
Late Stories: Memories of Christmas, Quite Early One Morning, Holiday Memory,
The Crumbs of One Man's Year, The Followers, A Story
Noted for his original rhythmic style and inventive use of words and imagery, the Welsh poet dylan thomas (191453) is remembered today for a large body of poems among them And Death Shall Have No Dominion and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night a play for voices (Under Milk Wood) and a collection of short stories (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog).
