Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
$22.46
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
‘The best entry to Dylan’s prose writing’ GUARDIAN ‘Powerful and profoundly beautiful’ SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS (on ‘A Visit to Grandpa’s’)
Shot through with the exuberance of youth and the melancholy of nostalgia, Dylan Thomas’s beloved collection of loosely autobiographical short fiction reveals the poet in an entirely new light. From the young schoolboy gloriously immersed in make-believe to the penniless journalist who ‘hoped, in a vague way, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399637862 |
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| ISBN-10: | 139963786X |
| Author: | Dylan Thomas |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas, born in Swansea in 1914, is perhaps Wales’ best-known writer. He is widely considered to be one of the major poets of the 20th century, and many of his greatest poems, such as ‘Fern Hill’ and ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ remain among the nation’s favourites.
As well as poetry, Dylan Thomas wrote numerous short stories and scripts for film and radio. His radio play UNDER MILK WOOD is considered by many to be his masterpiece. He led a fascinating and tempestuous life, permeated by love affairs and reckless bouts of drinking, which led him to claim that he had beast, angel and madman within him.
His life ended tragically in 1953 when he collapsed and died in New York shortly after his 39th birthday. A memorial stone commemorating his life and work was unveiled in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey in 1982.
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