Best Selling Books by Dylan Thomas

Between May 1930 and August 1935, Dylan Thomas kept numerous notebooks of poems. They contain the drafts of almost all of the work that would form his first two reputation-making collections, 18 Poems (1934) and Twenty-five Poems (1936), and many of those in his third collection, The Map of Love (1939). Thomas sold four of the notebooks, spanning May 1930 to May 1934, to the University of Buffalo in 1941. However, the existence of a fifth notebook, covering the period June 1934 to August 1935, was unknown until 2014, the centenary of his birth. The Fifth Notebook of Dylan Thomas makes this newly-discovered text available to readers and researchers for the first time. It contains the only existing MSS versions of Thomas''s most challenging poems, ''I, in my intricate image'' and ''Altarwise by owl-light'', and fourteen other early poems. It contains facsimiles and full transcripts of the originals, is annotated throughout, and has a full scholarly introduction. Exploring the contexts of these brilliant and experimental lyrics – many with substantial reworkings and variant passages – this landmark publication sheds new light on the creative practice of one of the most important and well-known poets of the twentieth century.

Rebecca''s Daughters is the nearest Dylan Thomas ever came to realizing his ambition to write a film scenario in such a way that it would not only stand ready for shooting but would, at the same time, give the ordinary reader a visual impression of the film in words. A romantic adventure story set in mid-nineteenth-century Wales, Rebecca''s Daughters has a dashing hero who is not what he seems; commonfolk oppressed by the landowners; and finally, justice triumphant over greed and misused privilege. Who is the mysterious "Rebecca" swathed in wide black skirts with a shawl drawn over his mouth and his eyes flashing from beneath the brim of his tall black hat as he exhorts his "daughters" to tear down the hated tollgates imposed by the gentry''s Turnpike Trust? And where does the foppish Anthony Raine--just returned from a tour in India with the despised British army--stand? And how is the lovely Rhiannon to choose between them? This reissue of Thomas''s delightful tale of derring-do has been illustrated with charm and verve by the celebrated wood engraver and graphic artist Fritz Eichenberg.

Thomas''s unfinished novel of a Welsh boy''s adventures in London is accompanied by twenty short stories.

Dylan Thomas''s letters bring the poet and his times to life in a way that almost no biography can. First published by J. M. Dent in 1985, Thomas''s Collected Letters received exceptional reviews, both for the scholarship of the editor, and for the quality of the collection. This new edition will bring the letters back into print at a time when interest is renewed in the life of this exceptional writer. The letters begin in the poet¿s schooldays, and end just before his death in New York at the age of 39. In between, he loved, wrote, drank, begged and borrowed his way through a flamboyant life. He was an enthusiastic critic of other writers'' work and the letters are full of his thoughts on his own work and on his friends, as well as unguarded and certainly unpolitical comments on the work of his contemporaries ¿ T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender among others. (¿Spender should be kicked¿Day-Lewis hissed in public and have his balls beaten with a toffee hammer¿) More than a hundred new letters have been added since Paul Ferris edited the first edition of the Collected Letters in 1985. They cast Thomas¿s adolescence in Swansea and his love affair with Caitlin into sharper focus. Thomas¿s letters tell a remarkable story, each letter taking the reader a little further along the path of the poet''s self-destruction, but written with such verve and lyricism that somehow the reader''s sympathies never quite abandon him.

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Set in the 1940''s, the novel begins with a harassed Prime Minister suddenly saddled with the task of choosing a new Poet Laureate (hence the "King''s Canary"). The Prime Minister is a typically unimaginative and hidebound member of the English gentry - but the modern poetry he is suddenly required to read looks even more foolish than he does. Author by author, school by school, Thomas and Davenport send up the contemporary poets.

Few writers have evoked as successfully, the mysteries and adventures of boyhood, of young love with its shattered dreams, or of death haunting two lads at play: none has done it in as fresh and telling phrases, with an elation as natural and contagious. The "Young Dog" of the title is of course Thomas himself, and this volume of autobiographical stories by the great modern poet, who died at 39 while on his third lecture tour in the United States, shows his waggish humor at its best, his exuberance and verbal magic in spectacular display. It also shows him a spinner of tales and a creator of memorable characters. There is the grandfather who marches off in his best clothes to be buried in the next town, the sardonic "senior reporter" on a provincial newspaper, servant girls who know how to deal triumphantly with a fast-talking dandy, a twenty-year-old farmer preaching wildly to boys in a deserted barn, a group of respectable worthies who play at literature behind closed blinds, and always the observant and unfazed young Thomas.

When Carrie Bradshaw in the "Sex and the City" movie began reading Love Letters of Great Men, millions of women wanted to get their hands on the book. Although the book Carrie was reading from was not real, the letters are-including the Beethoven one quoted by Mr. Big at their wedding ceremony. Here are the actual love letters for you to enjoy and treasure! "These letters express such heartfelt emotions and the bliss of new love... I finally realized how men experience love and it is especially beautiful!" - Rebecca of Amazon (Top 500 Reviewer) Featuring: A helpful background sketch for every writer and love letter Nearly 70 photographs of the letter authors and their lovers Most popular and best-selling Love Letters book-thousands of copies sold every year!!! Written by these Great Men: John Adams, Sullivan Ballou, Honor� de Balzac, Ludwig Van Beethoven Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Winston Churchill John Constable, Alfred Duff Cooper, Pierre Curie, Scott F. Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry VI of France, Victor Hugo, James Joyce, Franz Liszt, Jack London, Mozart, Robert Peary Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Robert Schumann, Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain Vincent Van Gogh, Voltaire, Woodrow Wilson

Retrato, em dez histórias, de um dos escritores mais originais e empolgantes do século XX. Com tradução de Manuel Alberto Vieira e introdução de Frederico Pedreira Ainda não tinha passado sequer meia dúzia de minutos quando, de repente, para meu grande espanto, percebi que estava perdidamente apaixonado por aquela rapariga, e ela nem sequer era a mais bonita. Nesta coletânea de dez contos autobiográficos, o escritor galês Dylan Thomas revisita a sua infância e juventude, que viveu com o entusiasmo arrebatado de um jovem cão, nas costas de Swansea. As aventuras da meninice, de que fazem parte um coração partido, a construção de uma amizade e o confronto com a morte, são contadas com um humor contagiante e uma surpreendente sensibilidade poética. Publicado em 1940, e caracterizado por um fulgor linguístico e literário ímpares, R etrato do Artista Quando Jovem Cão concede ao leitor o privilégio de acompanhar o autor no seu percurso apaixonante em busca de uma identidade artística - que viria a revelar-se nada menos que genial.