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Under Milk Wood

A Play for Voices
By Dylan Thomas
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A new edition of Dylan Thomas's dazzling radio play. It is spring, a moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent... In the Welsh seaside town of Llareggub, night is moving in the streets. Its inhabitants are lost in the land of... Read More
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A new edition of Dylan Thomas's dazzling radio play.

It is spring, a moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent...

In the Welsh seaside town of Llareggub, night is moving in the streets. Its inhabitants are lost in the land of dreams—old Captain Cat catches up with his drowned shipmates, Mog Edwards the draper is consumed by mad love for Miss Price the dressmaker, and Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard whips the ghosts of her two late husbands into shape.

As the sun rises, the 'dismays and rainbows' of each character are played out within the cycle of one day, intertwining voices and lives, dreams and reality. By turns tender, hilarious, and beautifully lyrical, Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood is his most beloved work and a landmark of Welsh literature.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241636008

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 December 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Edited by Nerys Williams

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 114g

Pages: 144

Collections

Arts & Culture Dylan Thomas General Fiction Non-Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics

About the Author

Dylan Thomas was born in 1914 in Swansea, where he worked as a reporter on the local newspaper. He published his first volume of poetry, 18 Poems, when he was just twenty years old. Thereafter, bohemian literary life in London alternated with some more positively creative periods back in Wales. He had a celebrated career as a writer for radio and film, and he continued to publish poetry and short stories. From 1950 onwards, Thomas' attention was given mainly to completing his most famous work, Under Milk Wood- A Play for Voices. The poet died in New York in 1953 and is buried at Laugharne.

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