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With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr.

Maria Chapdelaine, the quintessential novel of the rugged life of early French-Canadian colonists, is based on the author’s experiences as a hired hand in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area.

Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts.