sentences:  Amongst his novels of working-class life are "Rhondda Roundabout" (1935) and "Bidden to the Feast" (1938).The political development of a young miner is the subject of "Cwmardy" (1937), Lewis Jones's (1897–1939) largely autobiographical novel.Gwyn Thomas (1913–81) was also a coalminer's son from the Rhondda, but won a scholarship to Oxford and then became a schoolmaster.