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A Child's Christmas in Wales

By: Dylan Thomas
Narrated by: Dylan Thomas
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 The sights, smells and sounds of a long-ago Christmas come to life in Dylan Thomas's reading of his classic tale. His wonderful recollection of a holiday in the seaside town of his youth is captured in a vivid performance; you'll want to make it part of your family's holiday tradition. This now-remastered collection also includes some of Thomas's most celebrated poems, including "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night."©1952, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1992 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Caedmon, An Imprint of Harper Audio, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Poetry Celebration Fiction Winter Christmas

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Critic reviews

"Hearing Dylan Thomas read 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' is a listening experience of unadulterated pleasure." ( Mass Media Newsletter)
"Thomas' deep, thunderous voice belies his sense of humor, which is amply evident." ( AudioFile)
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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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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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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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It is so wonderful that the original recording can still be enjoyed today. Great to hear Thomas' words read in his voice.

Stunning, heartfelt.

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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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The writing of course is marvellous. I had never heard Dylan Thomas’s voice before and was surprised that there is hardly any evidence of a Welsh accent. The delivery, to a modern ear at least, is very grandiose and somewhat melodramatic. To be honest, although it feels silly to say, I would have preferred another narrator.

Wonderful writing - unexpected delivery!

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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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lovely book but the audio is not good quality as my membership pays off for premium products.
it's hardly to understand some words, better narrator would be Richard Burton as he did excellent job for
book called Under Milk Wood (Dramatised) - what a pure joy! I re-buy when re-narrated this fabulous classic
stories, thanks for your attention Audible!

lovely book but

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