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.
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..
Also here is the fiction from Quite Early One Morning , a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death.
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 .
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 .
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
