As the industrial revolution transformed Britain, the coal-mining regions of South Wales fairly basked in prosperity. And food in plenty. Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still -- real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then." - Nominated [22]

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The 2 stars is really because I feel flat out terrible leaving just 1 star, so I rounded up from the barely 1.5 stars it scraped in my opinion.

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A mixed bag, but overall an enjoyable read simply due to the author's poetic way with words and depiction of Wales.

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Işte bu kitapta da yıllar sonra, çocukluğumda yaşadığım o doymak bilmez bir merakla takip ettim akışı. Her bir karakteri tek tek tanıdım. Kimini sevdim, kiminden nefret ettim Mr. Jones mesela. O mahkeme sahnesinde diğer tüm katılımcılarla birlikte ben de oradaydım ve nefesimi tutup yargıçın dudağından dökülecekleri bekledim. The history lesson was terrific and an excellent complement to Elizabeth Gaskell's brilliant North and South, as well as my non-fiction reads on industrialization and populist and socialist movements in Britain and the U.S. The strike is eventually settled, and Gwilym and his sons reconcile, yet many miners have lost their jobs. The exceptionally beautiful Angharad is courted by the mine owner's son, Iestyn Evans (Marten Lamont), though she loves Mr. Gruffydd. Mr. Gruffydd loves her too, to the malicious delight of the gossipy townswomen, but cannot bear to subject her to the hard, spartan life of an impoverished minister of religion. Angharad submits to a loveless marriage to Evans, and they relocate out of the country. 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] Stephens said Llewellyn had always denied having a birth certificate. 'He maintained his birth had not been registered as a protest against an English custom by his Welsh nationalist grandparents.'

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But not everyone can forgive Llewellyn's fraudulent past. Professor Ian Bell of Swansea University believes the author's false image of Wales is deeply xenophobic. Some one once said, after seeing the beauty of Alaska, that he wished he had seen it as an old man, for it's magnificent beauty would surely spoil any scene he would ever see after. That's how I feel about this lovely, beautiful, wonderful book. I am afraid nothing I read will ever make me feel like this. I feel quite touched by it. I adored the old fashioned, picturesque setting. The valley and mining community was portrayed so vividly and beautifully, it was easy to see why Huw loved his valley/home. Lovely writing in this story of a Welsh family in a coal-mining village (I think in the Rhondda valley area altough the author didn't specify) from about 1890 to 1910. Meic Stephens, creative writing lecturer at the University of Glamorgan, and editor of the Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, knew Llewellyn.

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a b Maltin, Leonard. "How Green Was My Valley (1941) - Notes - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. TCM Interactive Group . Retrieved August 20, 2019. The fact behind the fiction was uncovered by researchers looking for a way to celebrate this year's sixtieth anniversary of the book.Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (1906-1983), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, claimed to have been born in St David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales; after his death he was discovered to have been born of Welsh parents in Hendon, Middlesex. His famous first novel How Green Was My Valley (1939) was begun in St David's from a draft he had written in India, and was later adapted into an Oscar-winning film by director John Ford. None But the Lonely Heart, his second novel, was published in 1943, and subsequently made into a film starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore. As well as novels including Green, Green My Valley Now (1975) and I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982), Llewellyn wrote two highly successful plays, Poison Pen and Noose Bronwen came over plenty of Saturdays after that, but I was always shy of her. I think I must have fallen in love with Bronwen even then and I must have been in love with her all my life since. It is silly to think a child could fall in love. If you think about it like that, mind. But I am the child that was, and nobody knows how I feel, except only me. And I think I fell in love with Bronwen that Saturday on the hill. It's a myth, a never-never land of pristine innocence ruined by the discovery of coal. His myth has generated more myths, of pits and singing miners and explosions, but it's a good yarn.'

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Gwilym Morgan, Huw's father: wants things done properly, with attention to manners, and a minding of one's own business It is only when men forget to fight for right that they fail. There are plenty to fight for wrong." (Ianto) Trouble begins when the mine owner decreases wages, and the miners strike in protest. Gwilym's attempt to mediate by not endorsing a strike estranges him from the other miners as well as his older sons, who quit the house. Beth interrupts a late night meeting of the strikers, threatening to kill anyone who harms her husband. She and Huw head across the fields in a snowstorm in the dark to return home. Later on their way home the strikers hear Huw calling for help. They rescue Beth and Huw from the river. Beth has temporarily lost the use of her legs and the doctor fears that Huw, who has also lost the use of his legs, will never walk again. He eventually recovers with the help of Mr. Gruffydd, which further endears the latter to Angharad. How Green Was My Valley was adapted as a half-hour radio play on the March 22, 1942, broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater, with Sara Allgood, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon. [25] [26]Tuesday Radio Programs". Toledo Blade (Ohio). September 28, 1954. p.4 (Peach Section) . Retrieved December 12, 2020. But How Green Was My Valley is still an abiding classic. From a strictly historical point of view it doesn't stand up. In fact, parts are plain wrong. He has the miners paid in gold sovereigns. Well, many of them would have been pleased to see one! I know Richard Llewellyn wasn't Welsh, but that doesn't take anything away from the story he has told us. It echoes with meaning, with poetry and the smell of the mountain air. It reminds us of the life we are capable of living and contrasts it with the life we choose to live. It is less a story, more a portrait of a way of life. The novel was adapted as a Broadway musical, called A Time for Singing, which opened at the Broadway Theatre, New York, on 21 May 1966. The music was by John Morris; book and lyrics were by Gerald Freedman and John Morris. The production was directed by Mr. Freedman, and it starred Ivor Emmanuel, Tessie O'Shea, Shani Wallis, and Laurence Naismith. Vadim O Kadar Yeşildi Ki, bir grup maden işçisinin hikayesini anlatmıyor yalnızca, onlar bütün insanlık. Korkuları, kıskançlıkları, zayıflıkları, güçlü yanları, bağnazlıkları, cehaletleriyle ve onları insan yapan tüm kusurlarıyla... Büyük insanlığın içindeki kum taneleri olan küçük insanları hikayesi.