How Green Was My Valley
1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. The author had claimed that he based the book on his own experiences but this was found to be untrue after his death; Llewellyn was English-born and spent little time in Wales, though he was of Welsh descent.[1] Llewellyn gathered material for the novel from conversations with local mining families in Gilfach Goch.[1]
Author | Richard Llewellyn |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical fiction |
Publisher | Michael Joseph |
Publication date | 1939 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 651 |
OCLC | 299207 |
Followed by | Up, into the Singing Mountain (1960) |
In the United States, Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.[2]