{"product_id":"how-green-was-my-valley-9780795300240","title":"How Green Was My Valley","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film directed by John Ford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful--before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story of a family and a town both defined and ruined by the mines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Huw's story is both joyful and heartrending--a portrait of a place and a people existing now only in memory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Full of memorable characters, richly crafted language, and surprising humor, \u003ci\u003eHow Green Was My Valley \u003c\/i\u003eis the first of four books chronicling Huw's life, including the sequels \u003ci\u003eUp into the Singing Mountain, Down Where the Moon is Small\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGreen, Green My Valley Now\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The reader emerges from these tense pages strangely aglow with sharing the happiness of the characters . . . The simplicity of the language and its delicately strange flavor give the book added charm.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Llewellyn (1906-1983) was an award-winning British novelist and the child of Welsh parents. He worked as a coal miner, a journalist, and a screenwriter for MGM studios. He served as a captain in the Welsh Guards during World War II, and after the war covered the Nuremberg Trials as a reporter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He is best known, however, for his novels--particularly those that celebrated coal mining communities in rural Wales. The best known of these, \u003ci\u003eHow Green Was My Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1939 to international renown, and was later memorably adapted for film by director John Ford, starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O'Hara.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"RosettaBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618248266002,"sku":"9780795300240","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3e7800ad-4065-4ab6-9b0c-8648e5e8edf5.jpg?v=1732529104","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-green-was-my-valley-9780795300240","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}