Maria Chapdelaine
In the backwoods of Quebec’s Lac Saint-Jean country, a young farm woman must decide what kind of life she wants, and with whom. Three men are drawn to Maria: François Paradis, the free-roaming woodsman she loves; a suitor who offers escape to the bright cities of the United States; and a neighboring farmer bound to the same hard land she was born on. When grief upends her hopes, the choice becomes a question about duty, memory, and the deep pull of home. Hémon, a French journalist who had labored on a Quebec farm himself, wrote with plain tenderness, and the book became a beloved classic of French-Canadian literature. This edition offers the W.H. Blake English translation. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB.
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Listen to Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon free online. The full audiobook (5 hr 3 min, 16 chapters, read by volunteer narrators) streams free on this page.
Maria Chapdelaine (1913) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01 - Peribonka | 27:33 | |
| 2 | 02 - Home in the Clearing | 17:29 | |
| 3 | 03 - Francois Passes By | 14:45 | |
| 4 | 04 - Wild Land | 20:52 | |
| 5 | 05 - The Vows | 28:28 | |
| 6 | 06 - The Stuff of Dreams | 14:57 | |
| 7 | 07 - A Meager Reaping | 5:09 | |
| 8 | 08 - Entrenched Against Winter | 12:17 | |
| 9 | 09 - One Thousand Aves | 19:14 | |
| 10 | 10 - Straying Tracks | 21:05 | |
| 11 | 11 - The Interpreter of God | 11:48 | |
| 12 | 12 - Love Bearing Gifts | 27:55 | |
| 13 | 13 - Love Bearing Chains | 17:48 | |
| 14 | 14 - Into the Deep Silence | 30:49 | |
| 15 | 15 - That We Perish Not | 31:26 | |
| 16 | 16 - Pledged to the Race | 1:27 |
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