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Under Milk Wood

A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "lyrical, impassioned and funny, an Our Town given universality" (The New Statesman and Nation).

Audience
adult
Length
short · 121 pages

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