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Loading... Maria Chapdelaine (1921)by Louis Hémon
None. I read this book on Jan 5,1952 and said of it: "This was written by a Frenchman who spent the last years of his life in Canada before his death in 1913. The book brought him fame when it was published in 1920. It is a thing of pure and tragic beauty, quite unexcelled by any recent reading of mine. Maria loves a man but he dies in the forest. She agrees to marry a neighbor rather than go to the U.S., despite the hardness of frontier life in the cold North. So much I feel so deeply found expression in this tale replete with accounts of cold winter and praise, implied, of the hard life. (  ) Schmerguls | Jan 9, 2011 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0887766978, Hardcover)Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Awards 2005, (Children's Literature, Illustration)As a work of art, as an insight into history, and as a moving story of survival in the midst of pitiless nature, Maria Chapdelaine has cast its spell over millions of readers around the world. At least 230 different editions have been published in twenty-three countries since it first appeared in 1916. Maria lives with her family near Peribonka in Quebec, a snowy, harsh world where work is hard and pleasures are few. She has three suitors from whom to choose, but in the end, her destiny is hers. After her mother dies, she takes up the family duties and stays with her younger siblings to care for them. Ever since it was published, Maria Chapdelaine was controversial. Was Maria right to submit to fate? (retrieved from Amazon Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:56:08 -0500) No library descriptions found. |
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