Maria Chapdelaine

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, this edition is based on the 1921 English translation by W. H. Blake (1861-1924).

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.