Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog and Other Fiction: New Annotated Edition

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Set in the authors native Swansea in South Wales, the ten autobiographical stories in this much-loved collection chart his journey from boyhood movingly and at times comically evoked in tales such as The Peaches and A Visit to Grandpas to early adulthood. Along the way, in Extraordinary Little Cough, among others, the vicissitudes of adolescence and a burgeoning sexuality are explored with characteristic tenderness and candour, while Where Tawe Flows and One Warm Saturday affectionately document the evolution of the young writers literary sensibility. Young love, male friendship, death, religion the gamut of youthful experience is here encapsulated, inflected throughout with Thomass typical humanity. First published in 1940, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog has proven to be second only in popularity to the authors masterpiece, Under Milk Wood, demonstrating that Thomas was as much a master of prose as he was of poetry.

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Noted for his original rhythmic style and inventive use of words and imagery, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (191453) is remembered today for a large body of poems among them, And Death Shall Have No Dominion and Do Not Go Gentle into That Goodnight a play for voices (Under Milk Wood) and a collection of short stories (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog).