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    A Child's Christmas In Wales
    Audiobook (abridged)47 minutes

    A Child's Christmas In Wales

    Written by Dylan Thomas

    Narrated by Dylan Thomas

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    About this audiobook

    First recorded in February of 1952, this remastered recording of Dylan Thomas reading 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 poems selected and read by Dylan Thomas, including arguably his most well-known Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.

    Includes:
    A Child’s Christmas in Wales
    Fern Hill
    Do Not Go Gentle Into
    That Good Night
    In the White Giant’s Thigh
    Ballad of the
    Long-Legged Bait
    Ceremony After a Fire Raid

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateDec 27, 2003
    ISBN9780060743031
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    A Child's Christmas In Wales
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    Dylan Thomas

    Dylan Thomas, born in 1914, began his career as a journalist in his native Swansea, Wales. He then moved to London where he worked in broadcasting and wrote film scripts, prose and drama to earn enough money to enable him to write what he most wanted to—poetry. He lived colorfully, even recklessly, until his untimely death in New York City in 1953. One of the 20th century’s most treasured writers, Dylan Thomas was a master craftsman of poetic complexity and richly obscure imagery. Thomas’s genius is made clear in this landmark recording through the everlasting gift he has given the word—his voice.

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    • 5/5
      Reminiscence as prosey-poetry, poetic-prose aching to leap aloud from the mouth like wee warbling birds. Source of one of the greatest lines beloved by readers everywhere : "She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?"
    • 5/5
      Every Christmas Eve we gather to listen to this CD, and then I insist we also listen to Fern Hill. I weep at the uncles part, but it's that warm nostalgic lovely weeping, and then Fern Hill breaks my heart (though I sang in my chains like the sea) and then we sleep.

      Thomas' voice is singular, the words are immaculate, the spell the two cast together is something unimaginable and otherworldly yet wholly human.

      Recommended more than I can say.
    • 4/5
      Every year I promise myself I'm going to read Dylan THomas' famous work for Christmas, and then can never find my copy or get one from the library. This year, I managed to snag an audio, and it was perfect. Dylan Thomas' beautiful voice and exquisite verbal writing washed over me. I had to listen to it twice, and know that this will become an annual event....the picture of a small village in Wales, the feel of the wind, the smell of the sea, all came together to mesmerize me into a true feeling of holiday cheer. A classic.