Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country (version 3) (audiobook)

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)