Maria Chapdelaine
About this audiobook
A new edition of Louis Hémon's classic romance novel, set in rural French Canada, Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of Lake St. John Country (originally published in French in 1913).
Maria Chapdelaine is the story of the titular Maria who, after the man she loves dies, must choose between two suitors and two ways of life -- one in the big city, the other in the countryside. Written with a French and Quebecois adolescent audience in mind, Maria Chapdelaine has become a mainstay of school curricula, both in its original French and in translation, and has been extensively analyzed and adadpted to stage and screen.
About the author
Louis Hémon (1880-1913) was a French writer, most famous for his novel Maria Chapdelaine. He moved to French Canada in 1911, when he wrote Maria Chapdelaine while working on a farm in the Lac Saint-Jean region. He died in 1913, before witnessing the widespread success of the noel.
