Maria Chapdelaine vs Maruja: Which Should You Read?

Maria Chapdelaine Louis Hémon · 1916 ★★★★☆ 3.8 262 pages · ≈ 4 h 51 m · Challenging

Tells of a French-Canadian family in early twentieth-century Quebec, where life is ruled by the harsh winters and a young woman must choose between the life she has always known and the possibility of a different, less…

Maruja Bret Harte · 1885 ★★★★☆ 3.6 266 pages · ≈ 4 h 56 m · Challenging

Morning was breaking on the high road to San Jose. The long lines of dusty, level track were beginning to extend their vanishing point in the growing light; on either side the awakening fields of wheat and oats were…