{"product_id":"collected-stories-dylan-thomas","title":"Collected Stories: Dylan Thomas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwansea Grammar School Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnder Milk Wood\u003c\/em\u003e. Also here is the fiction from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuite Early One Morning\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAltogether 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Landmark Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47186995577072,"sku":"9780811237529","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/1385\/8477\/files\/Screenshot2025-04-21at5.23.21PM.png?v=1745274209","url":"https:\/\/shop.landmarkbooksellers.com\/products\/collected-stories-dylan-thomas","provider":"Landmark Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}