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How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, narrated by Huw Morgan, the main character, about his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live.
- Richard Llewellyn
- 1939
Richard Llewellyn. 4.20. 17,810 ratings1,786 reviews. A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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- Richard Llewellyn
Several of his novels dealt with a Welsh theme, the best-known being How Green Was My Valley (1939), which won international acclaim and was made into a classic Hollywood film. It immortalised the way of life of the South Wales Valleys coal mining communities, where Llewellyn spent a small amount of time with his grandfather.
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- November 30, 1983
- December 8, 1906
"How Green Was My Valley" is a classic novel by Richard Llewellyn, first published in 1939. The book is a poignant coming-of-age story set in a Welsh coal mining town during the late 19th century.
Jun 28, 2001 · How Green Was My Valley. Richard Llewellyn. Penguin UK, Jun 28, 2001 - Fiction - 448 pages. A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My...
- Richard Llewellyn
- Penguin UK, 2001
- reprint, revised
An immediate bestseller on publication in 1939, How Green Was My Valley quickly became one of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century. Poetic and nostalgic, it is an elegy to a lost world.
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Apr 18, 2013 · How Green Was My Valley. The international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film directed by John Ford. Huw Morgan remembers the...