The Collected Stories of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

His prose, his images, his stories all pulsate with life, with a beat and a variety that captivate, invigorate, and clarify.

Los Angeles Times

Dylan Thomas’s magisterial stories all in one volume, available in a beautiful new paperback edition

The Collected Stories of Dylan Thomas

Fiction by Dylan Thomas

This 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 Swansea Grammar School Magazine. 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 Under Milk Wood. Also here is the fiction from Quite Early One Morning, a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death.

Altogether 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.

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Paperback(published Nov, 07 2023)

ISBN
9780811237529
Price US
24.95
Trim Size
5x8
Page Count
384

Clothbound(published Oct, 01 1986)

ISBN
9780811209984
Price US
16.95
Page Count
384

Ebook(published Oct, 01 1986)

ISBN
9780811220453
Price US
16.95
Portrait of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

20th century Welsh poet

His prose, his images, his stories all pulsate with life, with a beat and a variety that captivate, invigorate, and clarify.

Los Angeles Times

Thomas’s stories appeal to me because he is required to snake his poetics in between the dialogue and exposition (such as it is), and the form reins in his Biblical tendencies. … In the same way that compilation albums often reveal the hidden strengths of a band, allowing someone else to decide what works, Collected Stories has always been my favorite Thomas, because of its balance. I need a touch of zinc white to even out the purple with this one. The demands of successful fiction bring Thomas and his rambles into the light, where we can see the triumph and regret in every drop.

Sasha Frere-Jones, 4columns