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A Child’s Christmas In Wales audiobook
- By: Dylan Thomas
- Narrator: Dylan Thomas
- Category: Classics, Juvenile Fiction
- Length: 46 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 27, 2003
- Language: English
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A Child’s Christmas In Wales Audiobook Summary
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
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That Good Night
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A Child’s Christmas In Wales Audiobook Narrator
Dylan Thomas is the narrator of A Child’s Christmas In Wales audiobook that was written by 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.
About the Author(s) of A Child’s Christmas In Wales
Dylan Thomas is the author of A Child’s Christmas In Wales
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A Child’s Christmas In Wales Full Details
| Narrator | Dylan Thomas |
| Length | 46 minutes |
| Author | Dylan Thomas |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | December 27, 2003 |
| ISBN | 9780060743031 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Child’s Christmas In Wales is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Classics, Juvenile Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the A Child’s Christmas In Wales is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780060743031.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
Goodreads Reviews
Moonkiszt
December 31, 2019
A recording of Dylan Thomas himself reading this book and poems ended out in my Christmas pile of reading this year, and how lucky was that???? The recording was scratchy, popped, and had odd starts and stops, like an old grandfatherly gentleman had been trapped out on the street and placed at a table with a beer and a tape recorder and teased into this task. An absolute treat. It is now on my list of "Do This Every Year at Christmas". . . .It's not long, it's not the best, but it isn't to be missed.
Heidi
December 20, 2022
Absolutely beautiful...read by Dylan Thomas a long time ago.I enjoy it almost every year. The re-read is a delight of the holiday season for me.The audio version is so lovely!
Alice
November 27, 2022
I really enjoyed A Child’s Christmas in Wales, it was a lovely series of recollections of childhood Christmases and it was enhanced by the picture book version which I also read. Of the poems, Do Not Go Into That Gentle Night and Fern Hill were my favourites. I found the others harder to understand but it was enjoyable to listen to Dylan Thomas reading them, while following along online with the text. Very poetic and song-like.
Elaine
September 16, 2022
The beauty of Thomas’s language and the power of his audio narration mesmerize … and echo in the memory.
Melody
December 25, 2013
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.
Nicole
December 26, 2018
I’m not usually an audiobook person, but I feel that this plus a wintry walk will be my new Christmas tradition. Thomas is a Welsh Jean Shepard with lush, thick prose and a resonant voice to match. The additional poems were difficult to follow in audio form but A Child’s Christmas in Wales is the meat and potatoes and nothing else is needed.
James
May 29, 2020
I love the poetry of Dylan Thomas. He has a full-mouthed rhythm that tells stories full of internal rhymes and a rocking cadence like a pendulum. His poems are loaded with multi-syllabic terms that feel like the dancing prose of an encyclopedia.
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