Public-domain audiobook
Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country (version 3) (audiobook)
Free audiobook of Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country (version 3) by Louis Hémon: 5 h 17 min in 16 sections, read by LibriVox volunteers.
5 h 17 minrunning time
16sections
≈ 49,000words
About this recording
Maria Chapdelaine is a short novel about a Canadian farm girl, her family, and various suitors for marriage. It is also about frontier life in Northern Quebec, where the weather and the geography are harsh. Even for the most healthy and hardworking, life is never easy, and oftentimes deadly perilous. Maria has come to the point in her young life where she must decide whom she will marry and hence the course her whole future will take. The novel has been one of the most popular books ever written in French, and especially loved by teens. (Summary by Carol Pelster)
Sources & data
- From the LibriVox catalogue. Word count estimated at 9,300 words per hour of narration.