The Collected StoriesHere, too, are stories originally written for radio and television and, in a short appendix, the schoolboy pieces first published in the Swansea Grammar School Magazine. A highpoint 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 Under Milk Wood. Also here is the fiction from Quite Early One Morning, a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death. Altogether 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, comedian of smalltown Wales. The book includes an entertaining, informative reflection on Thomas by another Welsh poet and storyteller, Leslie Norris, as well as a brief listing of publication details by Professor Walford Davies, editor of Dylan Thomas: Early Prose Works. |
Contents
1 | |
The Enemies | 16 |
The Vest | 32 |
The End of the River | 49 |
The School for Witches | 65 |
A Prospect of the Sea | 87 |
Prologue to an Adventure | 104 |
An Adventure from a Work in Progress | 117 |
Quite Early One Morning | 291 |
Holiday Memory | 304 |
The Crumbs of One Mans Year | 311 |
The Followers | 329 |
A Story | 337 |
Brember | 347 |
Gaspar Melchior Balthasar | 355 |