RosettaBooks Releases HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

Having worked as a coal miner, journalist, and screenwriter, Richard Llewellyn crafted stories of rural mining towns in Wales with a clarity that brought the countryside vividly to life. How Green Was My Valley won the National Book Award in 1940, and in 1941, John Ford directed its Best Picture Academy Award-winning film adaptation.

Llewellyn illustrates the contradictions that surround the opening of a coal mine in a pristine South Wales village with finesse and subtlety. Although the mine brought paid jobs, it destroyed the natural landscape of the town and changed the community forever. The inhabitants' relationships to each other and to the land are complicated as a result of becoming an exploited mining town.

"The themes in How Green Was My Valley continue to be relevant to contemporary readers," said Arthur Klebanoff, CEO of RosettaBooks.

The story, told in retrospect by the youngest son of a respectable mining family, details how people will betray themselves and each other in search of what it is they want most. The narrator, Huw Morgan, had the academic ability to leave the town behind, but is ironically the last one left to tell the town's narrative.

Threaded with unexpected comedy and heartrending loss, How Green Was My Valley captures a moment in time that was both fleeting and eternal, existing now only in memory. Widely published in many forms including short stories, Llewellyn is best remembered for his novels.Nominated for ten Academy Awards, the film adaptation swept five. The film beat out such classics as Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon for Best Picture.

About RosettaBooks: RosettaBooks is the leading independent eBook publisher, responsible for brand line publishing in collaboration with AARP, Harvard Health Publications, and Mayo Clinic, as well as such timeless classics as Brave New World, Slaughterhouse-Five, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the complete works of Winston Churchill, and the first-time digital release in the U.S. of 35 titles from renowned science fiction author Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Publisher of ten Kindle Singles, including Ray Bradbury's The Playground, RosettaBooks has launched nine of them to bestseller status. For more information, please visit RosettaBooks.com and follow the e-publisher on Facebook.

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