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Jalna, first published in 1927, won the Atlantic Monthly Press's first $10,000 Atlantic Prize Novel award. De la Roche went on to write about the Whiteoak family for the next 30 years, establishing a place for herself in popular Canadian literature.
Sep 16, 2013 · The Jalna series is a 16-novel family saga about the Whiteoak family. First published in 1927, Jalna won the Atlantic Monthly Press’s first $10,000 Atlantic Prize Novel award. De la Roche went on...
- Mazo de la Roche
- Dundurn.com, 2013
- 1459723562, 9781459723566
The Jalna series consists of sixteen novels that tell the story of the Canadian Whiteoak family from 1854 to 1954, although each of the novels can also be enjoyed as an independent story. In the world of the Whiteoaks, as in real life, people live and die, find success and fall to ruin.
Jalna, novel by Mazo de la Roche (Toronto, Boston and London, 1927). The first of 16 books about the Whiteoak family, Jalna is the book which determined the course of de la Roche's career. Jalna shows de la Roche's genius for keeping her readers engaged in the improbably fascinating developments in her characters' lives.
Jalna, first published in 1927, won the Atlantic Monthly Press's first $10,000 Atlantic Prize Novel award. De la Roche went on to write about the Whiteoak family for the next 30 years, establishing a place for herself in popular Canadian literature.
Book 1. The Building Of Jalna. by Mazo de la Roche. 3.80 · 1,459 Ratings · 130 Reviews · published 1935 · 44 editions. First published in 1944, The Building of Jalna is … Want to Read. Rate it: Book 3. Mary Wakefield. by Mazo de la Roche. 3.92 · 533 Ratings · 35 Reviews · published 1949 · 48 editions.
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...
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