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A Child's Christmas In Wales

And Five Poems

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A Child's Christmas In Wales

By: Dylan Thomas
Narrated by: Dylan Thomas
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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 Wales
Fern Hill
Do Not Go Gentle Into
That Good Night
In the White Giant’s Thigh
Ballad of the
Long-Legged Bait
Ceremony After a Fire Raid

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This wonderful reading by Dylan Thomas brings back all the images of a welsh christmas. The images of a lost world that is still reflected in the christmas of today.

A reading for all your christmas's

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I recognise so much of my own childhood Christmases in this poem that it seems uncannily my recollections and not those of Dylan who Thomas.

My childhood Christmases

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Would you listen to A Child's Christmas in Wales again? Why?

This can be listened to many times because of the supreme detail that puts different images into your mind on each listening.

What did you like best about this story?

It has everything you could ever want on the old christmas days

What about Dylan Thomas’s performance did you like?

Simply superb

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It does nothing less than open up all your emotions.

Any additional comments?

To listen to a great narration look no further

Gives you a true feeling you are really there.

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a child's Christmas captures a world of childhood that takes you back to chistmas past read by the author and then hearing Dylan Thomas read his own work makes this a very special book to listen to

magical.

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Another book group choice, this time for our Christmas discussion with afternoon tea by a huge log fire in a country hotel. No one reads Dylan Thomas better than the man himself and here he is reminiscing his own childhood Christmas in his Wales homeland. People of a certain age will find plenty to smile about and identify with, wherever they grew up. Nice and short, it is possible to suffer from Dylan Thomas overload but not here. There follows more of his poems including what is perhaps his best known, and in my opinion, finest delivery - Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.

A Great Little Stocking Filler!

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