This collection of the poet Dylan Thomas's fiction and what an extraordinary storyteller he was holds special interest because it ranges from the early stories such as "The School for Witches" and "The Burning Baby," with their powerful inheritance of Welsh mythology and wild imagination, to the chapters he completed before his death of the alas unfinished novel Adventures in the Skin Trade.Adventuresis the story, written in a shrewd, sly, deadpan vein of picaresque comedy, of young Samuel Bennet, who runs away from his home in Wales to seek his fortune in London.
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This collection of the poet Dylan Thomas's fiction and what an extraordinary storyteller he was holds special interest because it ranges from the ...
In England and America Dylan Thomas made his art and personality widely known through public readings, radio broadcasts and recordings. Many of the 25 short stories, autobiographical sketches and essays in Quite Early One Morning, a volume planned by Thomas shortly before his death, were read by him on such occasions. They are alive with his verbal magic, his intense perception of life, his gargantuan humor and with the very ring of his voice.
In England and America Dylan Thomas made his art and personality widely known through public readings, radio broadcasts and recordings. Many of the 25...
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. (A piece of New Directions history: it was our founder James Laughlin who identified Thomas' body at the morgue of St. Vincent's Hospital.) Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the poet's work. Thomas wrote "Prologue" addressed to "my readers, the strangers" -- an introduction in verse that was the last poem he would ever write....
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Th...
Dieser Band enthlt eine umfangreiche Auswahl wichtiger Hrfunktexte von Dylan Thomas. Darunter sind zahlreiche bislang unbersetzte, die den Weg zu seinem berhmten Meisterwerk Unter dem Milchwald ffneten. Daneben steht als Quelle fr unerwartete Neuentdeckungen eine Sammlung von Briefen, Zeugnisse der groartigen poetischen Selberlebensbeschreibung dieses groen Dichters.
Dieser Band enthlt eine umfangreiche Auswahl wichtiger Hrfunktexte von Dylan Thomas. Darunter sind zahlreiche bislang unbersetzte, die den Weg zu sein...
