{"product_id":"9780811220453","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 \u003cem\u003eA Child's Christmas in Wales\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAdventures in the Skin Trade,\u003c\/em\u003e charts the progress of \"The Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive\" toward his mastery of the comic idiom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHere, 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 highpoint of the collection is Thomas's \u003cem\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a Young Dog\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, comedian of smalltown Wales. The book includes an entertaining, informative reflection on Thomas by another Welsh poet and storyteller, Leslie Norris, as well as a brief listing of publication details by Professor Walford Davies, editor of \u003cem\u003eDylan Thomas: Early Prose Works\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079557562608,"sku":"9780811220453","price":19.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811220453_p0.jpg?v=1763728682","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811220453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}