Armand Durand
Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family.
Paul Durand, a prosperous Québécois farmer, marries in quick succession two very different wives, and fathers two very different sons. The first son, Armand, delicate and bookish, is destined for a legal career in the city; the second, Paul Junior, tougher and down-to-earth, continues life on the farm. The story deals with troubling aspects of parental, sibling, and marital relationships.
Armand Durand may be one of the best Canadian novels that no one has heard of. It was well received in both its English and French editions, but is today hard to find, especially in the original English. Silenced Sextet (1993), a study of 19th-century Canadian women authors whose works were initially popular but later slipped into obscurity, offers this assessment: “it is a mature novel, valuable for its complex human relationships and also for its glimpses of Montreal life in Leprohon’s own time and of rural Quebec life in somewhat earlier days.” - Summary by Bruce Pirie
Genre(s): Family Life, Literary Fiction
Language: English
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Play 01 | Chapter I | Bruce Pirie |
00:19:37 |
Play 02 | Chapter II | Bruce Pirie |
00:23:40 |
Play 03 | Chapter III | Bruce Pirie |
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Play 04 | Chapter IV | Bruce Pirie |
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Play 05 | Chapter V | Bruce Pirie |
00:17:36 |
Play 06 | Chapter VI | Bruce Pirie |
00:42:17 |
Play 07 | Chapter VII | Bruce Pirie |
00:16:59 |
Play 08 | Chapter VIII | Bruce Pirie |
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Play 09 | Chapter IX | Bruce Pirie |
00:21:31 |
Play 10 | Chapter X | Bruce Pirie |
00:18:09 |
Play 11 | Chapter XI | Bruce Pirie |
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Play 12 | Chapter XII | Bruce Pirie |
00:39:44 |
Play 13 | Chapter XIII | Bruce Pirie |
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Play 14 | Chapter XIV | Bruce Pirie |
00:32:45 |
Play 15 | Chapter XV | Bruce Pirie |
00:24:18 |
Play 16 | Chapter XVI | Bruce Pirie |
00:31:25 |
Play 17 | Chapter XVII | Bruce Pirie |
00:36:17 |
Play 18 | Chapter XVIII | Bruce Pirie |
00:18:32 |
Play 19 | Chapter XIX | Bruce Pirie |
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