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 days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful-before the mines...
The novel is set in South Wales in the reign of Queen Victoria. It tells the story of the Morgans, a respectable mining family of the South Wales Valleys, through the eyes of the youngest son, Huw Morgan. Huw's academic ability sets him apart from his elder brothers and enables...
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 Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh...
Rare old book - dust cover has some damage.