THE ATHENAEUMMaria ChapdelaineLouis Hémon
Novel
Maria Chapdelaine(eBook #4383)
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textLouis Hémon, a young Breton who came to Quebec in 1911, spent the summer of 1912 working on a farm at Péribonka by Lake St John, and wrote this novel of the settlers there. He was killed by a train in northern Ontario in July 1913, before it was published. Maria must choose between three men, and between staying on the land and leaving for the cities of the United States, and William Hume Blake’s translation of 1921 made her known in English.
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- Reading time
- About 3 hr 5 min
- Where to find it
- The Canadian Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #4383. In the public domain in the United States.