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Under Milk Wood

The beloved Welsh modern classic

Dylan Thomas author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:8th May '14

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Dylan Thomas's classic radio play reprinted to celebrate the centenary of his birth. A true masterpiece that has never been out of print.

Dylan Thomas's classic radio play reprinted to celebrate the centenary of his birth. A true masterpiece that has never been out of print

We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.
'Dazzling' New York Times

'A tour de force' Guardian

'Blazing' New Yorker


Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas's best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. It tells the story of a seaside village during one spring day, populated by a cast of curious characters who we meet while still asleep, having wild dreams. Then as dusk and darkness fall at the end of the day, we say 'Goodnight', tucking them back into bed, to sleep once more.

Lyrical, funny and moving, Under Milk Wood creates a rich modern pastoral, a tapestry of dreams and reality which has captured the imaginations of generations of readers.

A Welsh epic, a work of poetic genius, a modern classic.

A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality * Guardian *
Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality * The Times *
Roguish, prancing, with blazing characters and lines. The words dizzied me, their grandeur, their wit * New Yorker *
A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor * New York Times *
It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive -- Randall Jarrell

ISBN: 9781780227245

Dimensions: 196mm x 131mm x 13mm

Weight: 156g

160 pages