{"product_id":"collected-stories-9780811237529","title":"Collected Stories","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 \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 \u003cem\u003eUnder Milk Wood\u003c\/em\u003e. Also here is the fiction from \u003cem\u003eQuite Early One Morning\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811237529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384","brand":"Dylan Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43124402978997,"sku":"9780811237529","price":18.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1fecd32a-3385-4d83-b545-70bf836579a3.jpg?v=1694551358","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/collected-stories-9780811237529","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}