Richard Llewellyn

"How Green Was My Valley" is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic and 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, Llewellyn's characters fight, love, laugh and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people.

How Green Was My Valley

Vadim o kadar yeşildi ki...

Que Verde Era Mi Valle

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Vadim o kadar yeşildi ki

Hverdagsskildring fra de walisiske kulgrubedistrikter under arbejdskampene omkring århundredeskiftet.

How Green was My Valley

Com'era verde la mia vallata

None but the lonely heart

The international bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award Best Picture film directed by John Ford. 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. Huw’s story is both joyful and heartrending—a portrait of a place and a people existing now only in memory. Full of memorable characters, richly crafted language, and surprising humor, How Green Was My Valley is the first of four books chronicling Huw’s life, including the sequels Up into the Singing Mountain, Down Where the Moon is Small, and Green, Green My Valley Now. “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.” —Chicago Tribune

None But the Lonely Heart

A mine explodes under a truck named Rosie and Shiner is dead. His pal, Snowy, out of hospital, makes the trip through war-torn Italy to put his grave to rights.

A Few Flowers for Shiner

Adventures of a Cockney soldier going through liberated Italy in a truck to put flowers on his pal's grave.

Au tout début du XXe siècle, dans une paisible vallée du pays de Galles, les Morgan, famille nombreuse et très soudée, vivent du travail de la mine depuis des générations. Huw, le cadet, rebelle dans l'âme, sensible et indomptable, observe le monde des adultes et n'est pas loin de tout comprendre : le travail de plus en plus dur et de plus en plus dangereux, les salaires qui diminuent, les patrons pleins de mépris. Nul doute, il fera bientôt partie de ceux qui disent non et qui lèvent l'étendard de la révolte... Traduit en vingt langues, vendu à travers le monde à plusieurs millions d'exemplaires, Qu'elle était verte ma vallée incarne aujourd'hui, de façon presque emblématique, la révolte de la terre meurtris par la folie des hommes.

Richard Llewellyn

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