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  • Maria Chapdelaine (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A French-Canadian Pioneer Romance of Rural Quebec, Faith, Courtship, and Survival on the Lake Saint-Jean Frontier

    by Louis Hémon, Hallie Aldermere ...
    Translated by W. H. Blake ...
    Maria Chapdelaine is a spare yet resonant novel of French-Canadian pioneer life, set among the clearings and forests of the Lac Saint-Jean region. Through Maria's choice between three suitors—the adventurous François Paradis, the Americanized Lorenzo Surprenant, and the steadfast settler Eutrope Gagnon—Hémon dramatizes competing futures for Quebec: mobility, assimilation, or fidelity to land and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country

    by Louis Hémon ...
    The door opened, and the men of the congregation began to come out of the church at Peribonka. A moment earlier it had seemed quite deserted, this church set by the roadside on the high bank of the Peribonka, whose icy snow-covered surface was like a winding strip of plain. The snow lay deep upon road and fields, for the April sun was powerless to send warmth through the gray clouds, and the heavy ... Read more

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  • Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country

    by Louis Hémon ...
    The story is set in the rugged and remote Lake St. John region of Quebec, Canada, during the early 20th century. It revolves around the life of Maria Chapdelaine, a young woman who lives on a farm with her family in this rural, French-Canadian community. The novel explores the challenges and hardships faced by the people in this isolated and harsh environment, where they must contend with the ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maria Chapdelaine

    by Louis Hémon ...
    *** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***Synopsis:Maria Chapdelaine is one of the most famous French Canadian novels. It is the love story of Maria Chapdelaine, daughter of a peasant family in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec, in the 1900s. It is often seen as an allegory of the French Canadian people, describing simple joys and great tragedies, the ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Maria Chapdelaine

    by Louis Hemon ...
    Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hemon. ... Read more

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  • Maria Chapdelaine

    by Louis Hémon ...
    After the man she loves dies suddenly, Maria must choose which of two suitors to marry. One offers a change to life in the big city, but Maria decides to stay in the countryside.Maria Chapdelaine is a romance novel written in 1913 by the French writer Louis Hémon, who was then residing in Quebec. Aimed at French and Quebec adolescents, the book had been included in school curricula, translated, ... Read more

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  • Maria Chapdelaine

    by Louis Hémon ...
    Translated by W. H. Blake ...
    It takes a hardy people to survive farming the harsh lands of the French Canadian wilderness, and Maria Chapdelaine must choose either to remain Québécois in this unforgiving land that has broken her heart, or to pursue a softer urban life in foreign New England.French writer Louis Hémon wrote Maria Chapdelaine during the two years he lived in Quebec, and it's based on his experiences working on a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country

    Enriched edition.

    by Louis Hémon, Sydney Caldwell ...
    Translated by W. H. Blake ...
    In "Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country," Louis Hémon crafts a richly textured narrative set against the backdrop of rural Quebec, intricately weaving elements of local folklore and the struggles of frontier life. The novel is characterized by its poignant lyricism and vivid descriptions of the harsh landscapes and the enduring spirit of its characters. Hémon's storytelling ... Read more

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  • Maria Chapdelaine A Tale of the Lake St. John Country

    by Louis Hemon ...
    "Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country" by Louis Hémon stands as a cornerstone of Canadian literature, offering a vivid portrayal of rural life in Quebec and the enduring spirit of French-Canadian pioneer culture. Set against the backdrop of immigration to the Canadian wilderness, the novel unfolds as a captivating romance and intricate family saga, interwoven with themes of ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country

    Enriched edition. A Poignant Portrait of Rural Quebecois Life and Love

    by Louis Hémon, Zoe Hart ...
    Translated by W. H. Blake ...
    Set against the stunning backdrop of the Lake St. John region of Quebec, Louis H√©mon'Äôs "Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country" intricately weaves the themes of love, resilience, and the harsh realities of rural life. H√©mon employs a lyrical yet straightforward prose style that captures the essence of the Qu√©b√©cois landscape and culture. The narrative revolves around Maria, a ... Read more

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  • Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale Of The Lake St. John Country

    by Louis Hemon ...
    This early 20-century manuscript was first published in French and later appeared in English. The book with its autobiographical connotations throws light on the dark side of peasant life. Hemon has presented a cruel realistic story of pioneer life in Quebec where he worked as a farm laborer. The description of the brutal and incredible struggle of men and women is heart-rending. A true classic! ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD

  • Love & Passion Through The Ages (Historical Novels Boxed-Set)

    A Classic Anthology of Courtship, Intrigue, Gothic Desire, and Forbidden Love

    by D. K. Broster, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Guy de Maupassant, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eliza Haywood, Maria Edgeworth, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mrs. Olifant, William Makepeace Thackeray, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Henry James, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grace Livingston Hill, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Fanny Fern, Lady Charlotte Bury, Mary Angela Dickens, Robert Williams Buchanan, Georg Ebers, Philip Meadows Taylor, Gilbert Parker, Anthony Trollope, F. Scott Fitzgerald, María Ruiz de Burton, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Mary Hays, Louis Hémon, Madame de La Fayette, Lady Sydney Morgan ...
    Love & Passion Through The Ages gathers an unusually broad canon of historical, romantic, Gothic, realist, sentimental, and social fiction to examine desire as both private experience and public force. Spanning courtship, illicit attachment, marriage, betrayal, exile, inheritance, and class aspiration, the set places psychologically charged romances beside sweeping narratives of political upheaval ... Read more

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