The copy of 'A Christmas Story' which is held in the Richard Burton Museum collection is a first edition copy, complete with the original dust-jacket, which was first published in 1964 by William Heinemann Limited and printed by the Western Printing Services Limited, based in Bristol. Although very similar in style to that of Dylan Thomas's 'A Child's Christmas In Wales', it is nonetheless, very 'Burton', or perhaps that should be, very 'Jenkins'. Written very much in the style of his own literary hero, Dylan Thomas, 'A Christmas Story' is a charming, semi-autobiographical account of a Christmas Eve of Richard Burton's childhood. 'A Christmas Story' was Richard Burton's first published short story. He graciously did, his subjects covering a diverse array of topics, ranging from Sir Winston Churchill, Hamlet, films and filming and his love of Welsh rugby. All of Burton's diaries, journals and notebooks have since appeared in their entirety in the marvellous book, 'The Richard Burton Diaries', which was edited by Professor Chris Williams and published by the Yale University Press in 2012.ĭuring Richard Burton's career he was often asked to write for, or contribute to, numerous articles for newspapers and magazines. Throughout his life Richard Burton's first love, even more so than acting, was literature and writing, and from his childhood until his death he meticulously kept notebooks and diaries, extracts of which first appeared in Melvyn Bragg's 1988 biography entitled, 'Rich' The Life Of Richard Burton'.
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