Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a collection of short prose stories written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published by Dent on 4 April 1940. The first paperback copy appeared in 1948, published by the British Publishers Guild. All of the stories are autobiographical and all are set in the writer's native Swansea in South Wales. Written over a number of years, the often comic stories show glimpses of his life, from early childhood up to his teens as a young reporter for the "South Wales Daily Post".
Beware of the Dog (short story) Beware of the Dog (short story) "Beware of the Dog" is a 1944 World War II story by Roald Dahl which was originally published in "Harper's Magazine" and later appeared in his "" collection. Its basic plot was adapted into the 1965 movie "36 Hours", starring James Garner and Rod Taylor, and the TV movie "Breaking Point" in 1989. Pilot Peter Williamson has sustained a massive injury while flying a mission over Vichy France (the name given to the German-controlled areas of the country). He ejects from the plane and later awakes to find himself in a hospital bed in