Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices
by:
Dylan Thomas (author)
Completed just before his death in 1953, this work gives the fullest expression to Thomas' sense of the magnificent flavor and variety of life.A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Wood is "lyrical, impassioned and funny, an Our Town given...
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Completed just before his death in 1953, this work gives the fullest expression to Thomas' sense of the magnificent flavor and variety of life.A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Wood is "lyrical, impassioned and funny, an Our Town given universality" (The New Statesman and Nation).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811202091 (0811202097)
ASIN: 0811202097
Publish date: 1954-01-17
Publisher: New Directions
Pages no: 107
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
20th Century,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
Modern Classics,
Fiction
A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town. bookshelves: play-dramatisation, poetry, published-1954, britain-wales, teh-brillianz Read in January, 1998 book and film and tape
Dylan Thomas originally intended this work to be radio play. However, my first experience of it was seeing the film adaptation narrated by Richard Burton, back when I was in high school in the 1970s. I remember two things about the experience: loving the sound of Richard Burton's voice, and feeling ...
I actually listened to the audiobook by Richard Burton. Was wonderful!
Hate:MRS PUGHGive me the parcel. WILLY NILLY [postman whose wife reads all the mail to him before he delivers it:]It's for Mr Pugh, Mrs Pugh. MRS PUGHNever you mind. What's inside it? WILLY NILLYA book called Lives of the Great Poisoners.[later:]MRS PUGHPersons with manners do n...