Book
How Green Was My Valley
- Published
- 1939
- Genre
- Fiction
- Publisher
- RosettaBooks
- Pages
- 448
- Words
- 178665
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40496.How_Green_Was_My_Valley?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_23
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.7
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 1000L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons - at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. Looking back on the hardships of his early life, where difficult days are faced with courage but the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. An immediate bestseller on publication in 1939, How Green Was My Valley quickly became one of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century. Poetic and nostalgic, it is an elegy to a lost world.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780795300240
- ISBN-10
- 0795300247
Tags
ClassicsFamily LifeMiningWalesWork