A Child's Christmas In Wales CD
by:
Dylan Thomas (author)
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...
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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 WalesFern HillDo Not Go Gentle IntoThat Good NightIn the White Giant’s ThighBallad of theLong-Legged BaitCeremony After a Fire Raid
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780060514679 (0060514671)
ASIN: 0060514671
Publish date: 2002-11-12
Publisher: Caedmon
Minutes: 80
Edition language: English
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 wor...
I acquired this audiobook earlier this year, after seeing an excellent stage production of [b:Under Milk Wood|763508|Under Milk Wood|Dylan Thomas|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347670819s/763508.jpg|243711], which I reviewed here. I've saved it up to listen to at Christmas time. Recorded in 1952, Dyl...
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