Jalna

de la Roche, Mazo

ISBN 10: 1894852230 / ISBN 13: 9781894852234

Published by Dundurn, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jalna
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1894852230
• ISBN 13: 9781894852234
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Winner of the 1927 Atlantic-Little, Brown Award

First published in 1927, this international bestseller is now back in print. Jalna is the first book in the popular series about a Canadian family named Whiteoak, who live in southern Ontario in a red-brick house called Jalna. In Jalna, the unforgettable family makes its first appearance. Two grandsons cause tumult when they bring their brides to live at Jalna, and Grandmother Adeline celebrates her 100th birthday. This is book 7 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Whiteoaks of Jalna.

About the Author

Mazo de la Roche was an impoverished writer in Toronto when in 1927 she won a $10,000 prize from the American magazine Atlantic Monthly for her novel Jalna. The book became an immediate bestseller. She went on to publish sixteen novels in the popular series.