Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)
Author: first_name:  Louis
last_name: Hémon
Language: English
Year: 1921

The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a famous example of the genre known as "novels of the land" ("romans du terroir"). These stories sought to reinforce and preserve the cultural, linguistic, and religious heritage of French Canada — a heritage at risk because of French Canada's historical situation as a conquered enclave inside English North America.

Maria is a young woman whose family works th