Adventures in the Skin Trade
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This collection of the poet Dylan Thomas's fictionââand what an extraordinary storyteller he was!ââholds special interest because it ranges from the early stories such as "The School for Witches" and "The Burning Baby," with their powerful inheritance of Welsh mythology and wild imagination, to the chapters he completed before his death of the alas unfinished novel Adventures in the Skin Trade. Adventures is the story, written in a shrewd, sly, deadpan vein of picaresque comedy, of young Samuel Bennet, who runs away from his home in Wales to seek his fortune in London.Â
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Dylan Thomas, born in Swansea in 1914, is perhaps Walesâ best-known writer, widely considered to be one of the major poets of the 20th century: many of his greatest poems, such as âFern Hillâ and ââDo not go gentle into that good nightââ are beloved and widely studied. As well as poetry, Dylan Thomas wrote numerous short stories and scripts for film and radioânone more popular than his radio play Under Milk Wood. He led a fascinating and tempestuous life, which ended all too soon in 1953 when he collapsed and died in New York City shortly after his 39th birthday.
