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A Child's Christmas in Wales

A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas

A Child's Christmas in Wales is a piece of prose by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recorded by Thomas in 1952. Emerging from an earlier piece he wrote for BBC Radio, the work is an anecdotal reminiscence of a Christmas from the viewpoint of a young boy, portraying a nostalgic and simpler time. It is one of Thomas's most popular works.

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“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”

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