Under Milk Wood: A Play For Voices
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
In the imagined Welsh seaside village of Llareggub, a single spring day unfolds in all its glorious, bawdy, and lyrical chaos — and Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices invites the listener into the dreams, desires, and secret lives of its eccentric inhabitants. Originally conceived as a radio play for the BBC and first broadcast in 1954, this masterwork chronicles the community's waking hours from the small hours of dawn to the close of day, narrated by two Voices who drift through the village like ghosts bearing witness to the comic, the tender, and the achingly human. Characters such as the twice-widowed Myfanwy Price, the dreaming blind Captain Cat, and the lustful Polly Garter populate the narrative with an unforgettable vividness that blurs the boundary between poetry and drama. Thomas's prose-poetry is a torrent of linguistic invention — rhythmic, incantatory, and shot through with a deep Welsh musicality that transforms the mundane into the mythic. This handsome Folio Society edition, edited with an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon — the BBC producer who shepherded the play to its legendary first broadcast — and illustrated with lithographs by the celebrated Welsh artist Ceri Richards, presents the text in a form worthy of its stature. A work that stands as one of the great monuments of 20th-century British literature, Under Milk Wood leaves the reader wondering whether any town, however ordinary, might secretly contain such an ocean of inner life.
Author: Dylan Thomas
Format: Hardback
Published: 2004, The Folio Society
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
In the imagined Welsh seaside village of Llareggub, a single spring day unfolds in all its glorious, bawdy, and lyrical chaos — and Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices invites the listener into the dreams, desires, and secret lives of its eccentric inhabitants. Originally conceived as a radio play for the BBC and first broadcast in 1954, this masterwork chronicles the community's waking hours from the small hours of dawn to the close of day, narrated by two Voices who drift through the village like ghosts bearing witness to the comic, the tender, and the achingly human. Characters such as the twice-widowed Myfanwy Price, the dreaming blind Captain Cat, and the lustful Polly Garter populate the narrative with an unforgettable vividness that blurs the boundary between poetry and drama. Thomas's prose-poetry is a torrent of linguistic invention — rhythmic, incantatory, and shot through with a deep Welsh musicality that transforms the mundane into the mythic. This handsome Folio Society edition, edited with an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon — the BBC producer who shepherded the play to its legendary first broadcast — and illustrated with lithographs by the celebrated Welsh artist Ceri Richards, presents the text in a form worthy of its stature. A work that stands as one of the great monuments of 20th-century British literature, Under Milk Wood leaves the reader wondering whether any town, however ordinary, might secretly contain such an ocean of inner life.