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A Child's Christmas in Wales Audio Book
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A Child's Christmas in Wales:
And Five Poems
Author/Reader:
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas had a voice like no other. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of this brilliant recording. This classic among Christmas tales is an audio treasure to be listened to again and again. Also includes: Fern Hill, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, In the White Giant's Thigh, Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait, and Ceremony After a Fire Raid. "Hearing Thomas speak [these lines] adds a magnificent melancholy... His Welsh-accented voice rises and falls... vibrant and powerful."—Publishers Weekly
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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UNABRIDGED |
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Publish Date: 10/17/2002
ISBN: 9780060514679
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Synopsis:
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First recorded in February of 1952, this remastered recording of Dylan Thomas reading his A Child's Christmas in Wales recalls all of the sights, smells, and sounds of a long-ago-Christmas. Thomas's wonderful recollection of this holiday in the seaside town of his youth is captured in this vivid performance. Also included are five other selected poems read by Dylan Thomas, including his well-known Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Whether sharing his wistful memory of a holiday spent with people long past, or addressing the perennial problem of our mortality, Thomas gives us great pleasure in our personal and common memories while affirming life with a resounding "Yes!" Contents:
A Child's Christmas in Wales
And five poems: Fern Hill; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; In The White Giant's Thigh; Balad of the Long-Legged Bait; Ceremony After a Fire Raid
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Author Bio:
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Dylan Thomas was educated at the Swansea Grammar School, after which he became a newspaper reporter. He entered and won a poetry contest in the local paper, and in 1934 "Eighteen Poems"--a volume of lyric poetry overflowing with imagery from nature, the Bible, and Welsh folklore--was published to great acclaim. In addition to poetry, Thomas was also the author of an autobiography ("Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog"), a radio play ("Under Milkwood"), and the wonderful children's book, "A Child's Christmas in Wales". All his work reflects his one great theme: the unity of all things, living and dead. His series of readings in America was enormously successful despite his heavy drinking and often outrageous behavior. On a reading trip to New York, he was suddenly taken ill at a Greenwich Village tavern and died in the hospital.
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