How Green Was My Valley

Name: How Green Was My Valley
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Richard Llewellyn
ISBN: 9781441786142

Author: Richard Llewellyn

Narrator: Ralph Cosham

Unabridged: 16 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/18/2011

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyns bestsellingand timelessclassic, as well as the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh humor, Llewellyns characters fight, love, laugh, and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people.

About Richard Llewellyn

Richard Llewellyn (1906–1983), a Welsh novelist, was born in Hendon, England, in the county of Middlesex. Before World War II, he spent periods working in hotels, wrote a play, worked as a coal miner, and produced his best known novel, How Green Was My Valley, as well as nineteen other novels. After the war he worked as a journalist, covering the Nuremberg Trials, and then as a screenwriter for MGM.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wesley on December 04, 2013

This will be a review that I will, no doubt, edit and add to a lot. This is easily my most favorite and special book. It's something so beautiful that my heart aches to dwell on it. It aches because I long to be apart of something so perfect and wish for such beauty in everything I experience. I feel......more

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen on May 18, 2017

4.5/5 stars. This is a wonderful and very clever piece of fiction about how we tend to remember things from our past fondly while forgetting about how bad things really were. "How Green Was My Valley" is a book about nostalgia and it is told from the point of view of Huw, who is now an elder, but wh......more

Goodreads review by Magrat on November 02, 2017

RESEÑA COMPLETA: [URL not allowed] Me ha gustado muchísimo, especialmente la primera mitad del libro, porque los relatos de infancia me fascinan.... y más si están descritos con esa nostalgia y en un ambiente tan peculiar como un pueblo minero en la Gales del final de la época......more

Goodreads review by Peggy on November 16, 2017

Richard Llewellen's writing is akin to Welsh singing, so beautiful it takes your breath away. In the beginning it seems like it will bog down in talk of forming a union, but read on. Although important to carry the story, it never does get tedious with that! This story is written so beautifully it h......more