Canadian classic books Maria Chapdelaine and Sunshine Sketches

MARIA CHAPDELAINE, LOVE STORY, RURAL QUEBEC 1900, LIKE NEW $10.00 Summary: Maria is the daughter of a settler hacking a farm from the northern Quebec wilderness with all the cold. sickness, loneliness and hardship of a pioneer. Maria falls in love with a trapper who proposes marriage which she accepts happily. He dies in a snowstorm trying to visit her for New Years. A neighbouring settler, Eutrope Gagnon, also courts her and a wealthy Bostonite, Lorenzo Suprenant, appears looking for a bride. She has no other choice and must decide between them, but her ability to love again is also dead. Will she abandon the hardship of Quebec and the priest’s ruling she is to populate and tame the land, or will she seek the luxury of the promised land? Condition: excellent, suitable for gifting Book Data: Title: Maria Chapdelaine; Authour Louis Hémon; Translated to English from French by W H Blake; Publisher: Macmillan 1921, © publisher; printed in Canada 1986, 1st paperback Canadian issue, 162 pages. 10.7 x 17.8 x 1.1 cm, ISBN 0771592515 SUNSHINE SKETCHES OF A LITTLE TOWN, STEPHEN LEACOK, HUMOUR LIKE NEW $10.00 Summary: Set in “Mariposa,” fictional town inspired by Orillia, Ontario, on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, (inspired by Lake Simcoe,) these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. (back cover) Book Data: Title: Sunshine Sketches of A little Town; Authour Stephen Leacock; Publisher McClelland 1960; printed in Canada 1991, 191 pages, 10.7 x 17.8 x 1.2 cm; ISBN 0771099843 Condition: like new, suitable for a gift Please provide telephone number with reply. Toronto address, Finch Ave and Yonge St area, near Finch subway station.