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Richard Llewellyn

Born

in Hendon, The United Kingdom

December 08, 1906

Died

November 30, 1983

Genre

Historical Fiction

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Richard Llewellyn (real name Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd) was a British novelist.

Llewellyn was born of Welsh parents in Hendon, north London in 1906. Only after his death was it discovered that his claim that he was born in St. Davids, West Wales was false, though of course he was of Welsh blood.

Several of his novels dealt with a Welsh theme, the best-known being How Green Was My Valley (1939), which won international acclaim and was made into a classic Hollywood film. It immortalised the way of life of the South Wales Valleys coal mining communities, where Llewellyn spent a small amount of time with his grandfather. Three sequels followed.

He lived a peripatetic life, travelling widely throughout his life. Before World War II, he ...more

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Average rating: 4.2 · 19,577 ratings · 2,034 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors

	How Green Was My Valley 4.21 avg rating — 19,138 ratings — published 1939 — 222 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Up into the Singing Mountain 3.48 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1960 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green, Green My Valley Now 3.59 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down Where the Moon is Small 3.63 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1970 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	None But the Lonely Heart 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1967 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Horse to Banbury Cross 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the Rug 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1979 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Few Flowers for Shiner 2.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1950 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witch of Merthyn 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1954 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Man In A Mirror really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1960 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

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“How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

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“I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

tags: father, son

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Polls

November 2014 New School Classics Poll

1920, The Age of Innocence byEdith Wharton, 305 pages

19 votes, 14.1%

1911, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 155 pages

19 votes, 14.1%

1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 291 pages

14 votes, 10.4%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages

13 votes, 9.6%

1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages

10 votes, 7.4%

1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages

10 votes, 7.4%

1998, The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 546 pages

9 votes, 6.7%

1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, 198 pages

8 votes, 5.9%

1993, Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pages

7 votes, 5.2%

1994, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages

7 votes, 5.2%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages

5 votes, 3.7%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1920, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 454 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1960, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, 242 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1939, How Green Was My Valleyby Richard Llewellyn, 448 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, 128 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1966, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 176 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

135 total votes

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