Wakefield's Course

Wakefield's Course
Author: Mazo de la Roche
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2010-01-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770705546

Originally published in 1941, Wakefield's Course begins in the spring of 1939 at Jalna. Renny Whiteoak is keen to sail for Ireland with his small daughter, Adeline, to buy a racehorse, but he's more eager to see his younger cousins, Finch and Wakefield, who have been living in London. On his arrival in England, Renny becomes entangled in his cousins' affairs of the heart. This is book 12 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Return to Jalna.

The Building of Jalna

The Building of Jalna
Author: Mazo de la Roche
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2009-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1554886287

First published in 1944, The Building of Jalna is one of sixteen books in the Jalna series written by Canada's Mazo de la Roche. In The Building of Jalna, Adeline, an impulsive bride with an Irish temper, and her husband, Captain Whiteoak, select Lake Ontario as the site of their new home. De la Roche chronicles their trials and tribulations during the building of the house, the swimming and skating parties, and the jealousies and humourous events that arise. This is book 1 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Morning at Jalna.

Return to Jalna

Return to Jalna
Author: Mazo de la Roche
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770705562

In Return to Jalna, the Whiteoak family reunites after a year of separation. Piers, Renny, and Wakefield return in 1943 during the Second Word War. Finch has been off on a concert tour, and Maurice has come home from Ireland. Its a time of change and strain, but the family remains united against all others.

Whiteoak Harvest

Whiteoak Harvest
Author: Mazo de la Roche
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 145970813X

First published in 1936, Whiteoak Harvest chronicles the 1930s saga of Renny Whiteoak and his wife, Alayne. Finch Whiteoak and wife, Sarah, return from their honeymoon to upset the Jalna household with Eden Whiteoak's love child. Meanwhile Wakefield Whiteoak is engaged to Pauline Lebraux but is tormented by religious doubts. This is book 11 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Wakefield's Course.

The Jalna Saga

The Jalna Saga
Author: Mazo de la Roche
Publisher: Dundurn.com
Total Pages: 3965
Release: 2013-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459723562

Beloved by generations, Mazo de la Roche’s irreplaceable Jalna saga is at last available in a single collected volume. For lovers of the series, this is truly the authoritative collection. 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 to write about the Whiteoak family for the next 30 years, establishing a place for herself in popular Canadian literature. The Jalna series has been translated into many languages and was adapted for stage, radio, and television. Includes all of the Jalna novels: The Building of Jalna Morning at Jalna Mary Wakefield Young Renny Whiteoak Heritage Whiteoak Brothers Jalna Whiteoaks of Jalna Finch’s Fortune The Master of Jalna Whiteoak Harvest Wakefield’s Course Return to Jalna Renny’s Daughter Variable Winds at Jalna Centenary at Jalna

Young Renny

Young Renny
Author: Mazo de la Roche
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1976
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Whiteoaks

Whiteoaks
Author: Mazo De la Roche
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1940
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Renny's Daughter

Renny's Daughter
Author: Mazo de la Roche
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2010-12-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1554888417

First published in 1951, in Rennys Daughter, Adeline Whiteoak is voyaging overseas. It is now 1948, and she travels with her Uncle Finch and cousin Maurice to Ireland and then London. On the ship she meets a charming Irishman and falls in love. However, when scandal breaks, she embodies her namesake and refuses to give him up. Meanwhile, back home, Jalnas peace and beauty is threatened by a neighbours speculative designs. This is book 14 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Variable Winds at Jalna.

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
Author: Muriel Spark
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1998-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811221040

"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."