Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of French Canada by Louis Hemon (AB510)

Published 1924: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / French Text

Original half leather over marbled boards with gilt ribbed titles and decoration on the spine. 254 clean and bright slightly age-toned pages. Boards slightly rubbed with time and bumped on the corners consistent with age. Scarce! (AB510)

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Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of French Canada by Louis Hémon

Maria Chapdelaine is a romance novel written in 1913 by the Breton writer Louis Hémon, who was then residing in Quebec. Aimed at young French and Quebecois people, the book had been included in school curricula, translated, and has been extensively analysed and adapted.

Maria Chapdelaine , the quintessential novel of the rugged life of early French-Canadian colonists, is based on the author’s experiences as a hired hand in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area. A young woman living with her family on the Quebec frontier, Maria endures the hardships of isolation and climate. Maria must eventually choose between three suitors who represent very different ways of a trapper, a farmer, and a Parisian immigrant. Powerful in its simplicity, this novel captures the essence of faith and tenacity, the key ingredients of survivance . Translated into many languages, Maria Chapdelaine is enshrined as a classic of Canadian letters. Google Books.

Reviewed in the United States on 20 October 2020
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This evocative novel presents the way of life in Lake St. John country of Quebec in the early 1900s.