{"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","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626411692306,"sku":"9780811237529","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_07827ef4-1953-4734-895d-c6ceec48720a.jpg?v=1732658380","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/collected-stories-9780811237529","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}