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A Child's Christmas In Wales - Abridged by Dylan Thomas

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A Child's Christmas In Wales - Abridged

by Dylan Thomas

Narrator Dylan Thomas

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Length 46 minutes

Language English

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“Dylan Thomas's gorgeous Welsh poet's voice animates these memories of his boyhood at Christmastime - 'when there were wolves in Wales' as he says, and 'all the Christmases roll down towards the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street.' In my family, we listen to this every year driving in the car to wherever we're celebrating the holiday. And all year long, I hear phrases from it drift through my head. The best gift.”
— Rachel • Celia Bookshop

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#13 in Bestselling Poetry Audiobooks

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

Children's Poetry

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.