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Maria Chapdelaine

First published: 1913
Pages: 119

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01 - Peribonka
27:33
02 - Home in the Clearing
17:29
03 - Francois Passes By
14:45
04 - Wild Land
20:52
05 - The Vows
28:28
06 - The Stuff of Dreams
14:57
07 - A Meager Reaping
5:09
08 - Entrenched Against Winter
12:17
09 - One Thousand Aves
19:14
10 - Straying Tracks
21:05
11 - The Interpreter of God
11:48
12 - Love Bearing Gifts
27:55
13 - Love Bearing Chains
17:48
14 - Into the Deep Silence
30:49
15 - That We Perish Not
31:26
16 - Pledged to the Race
1:27

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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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Louis Hémon

Louis Hémon (1880-1913) was a French writer who emigrated to Canada in 1911 and spent time working on farms in rural Quebec. He wrote his masterpiece there but died in a railway accident in Ontario before it was published and became an international success.

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