Buy this book on-line DAVIES, WALFORD - Edited & intro by: : DYLAN THOMAS: EARLY PROSE WRITINGSLONDON.J.M. DENT & SONS LTD.,1971. ISBN 0460039903.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,clean,blue+white subject portrait photographic illustrated upper wrap with black lettering,publisher advert to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot
of spine/backstrip,which is also minimally
sunned/faded.Top edge coloured,fore-edge slightly aged and minimally,sporadically spotted/foxed,contents bright,tight and clean - a gloss paint-splash to pp152/3,
partially obscuring odd letters in some sentences - but still discernible and decipherable.The affected pages have not stuck together and are separate.
Publisher's original,plain black cloth bds
with crisp,bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xvipp+3-204pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, author intro,Pts 1+2 comprising creative work - short stories and excerpts from an unpublished novel,a film script,plus critical and other writings respectively; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
The prospect of a substantial volume of little-seen prose by one of the great literary craftsmen of the century must lift the spirits of every serious reader.
That prospect is well realized.The book has the excitement,the anticipation of the
unexpected in both thought and expression that Dylan Thomas imparted to virtually everything he wrote.The new book is a selection of Dylan Thomas's prose left either uncollected or,in some cases, unpublished.It gathers into one convenient
volume examples of his work in the form of
the short story,the novel,the broadcast,
the critical review and the film script.
Some examples of Thomas's writing which conditions prevailing during the 1930s made it impossible to publish are here included.Though its scope extends over Thomas's entire career,it is of particular
interest in presenting early short stories
from magazine and manuscript sources which
extend our knowledge of the writer's early
work in the medium.An excerpt from his novel,'The Death of the King's Canary',is published for the first time.
The Editor has added an essay of introduction and also source and explanatory notes.The introduction discusses the bibliographical and pyschological context of the early plans to publish a fuller collection of his prose works than proved possible in the event.
By supplementing the more readily available body of the poet's work in prose,'Early Prose Writings' helps to clarify and chart Dylan Thomas's progress towards the comic idiom of which he became
one of the supreme masters in English.
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