![]() ![]() It is in part a coming-of-age tale, including a sensitive portrayal of Huw's romantic initiation. ![]() Told as a reminiscence of happier times, the novel has a sad, sentimental tone, describing the passing away of many people in Huw's life as well as the loss of his valley's greenness. It tells the story of Huw Morgan, the son and brother of coal miners in south Wales at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, focusing on the destruction of his green valley by the spread of coal mining and the slag heap (a pile of waste material that is a by-product of mining). How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyn's best-known work, a bestselling novel that was first published in 1939 and was made into a popular movie in 1941. ![]()
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