The Jalna Saga by Mazo de la Roche, Deluxe Edition. Includes all 16 books, plus the biography of Mazo de la Roche by Heather Kirk
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Overview: Beloved by generations, Mazo de la Roche’s irreplaceable Jalna saga is at last available in a single collected volume. This deluxe edition unites all sixteen Jalna novels and, for the first time, Heather Kirk’s extraordinary 2006 biography of the author, painting a complicated portrait of a writer for whom international acclaim was a blessing and a curse. No understanding of the Jalna series is complete without this fascinating exposé of the woman who created it. For lovers of the series, this is truly the authoritative Jalna collection.
Genre: Fiction » General Fiction/Classics
1. 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 home. The building of the house, the swimming and skating parties, and the jealousies and humor of the family are described.
2. Morning at Jalna
Now the mother of four children, Adeline finds her Canadian household involved with a family of Southerners who are members of a secret Confederate resistance movement in the U.S. Civil War.
3. Mary Wakefield
A young English woman is hired by Ernest Whiteoak to be a governess to Philip’s motherless children. When Philip falls in love with her, his mother does all she can to prevent the marriage.
4. Young Renny
Renny, the head of the Jalna household, is depicted as a boy whose impatience with an English cousin creates some amusing incidents.
5. Whiteoak Heritage
Fortunes of the Whiteoak family after World War I. Renny returns home to find his one-time love still unforgiving and his brother still involved with an older woman.
6. Whiteoak Brothers
Matriarch Adeline has reached her ninety-eighth year, and her grandson Renny is the head of the Jalna household. This volume deals with the family’s unfortunate investments in a fake gold mine.
7. Jalna
The family home of the Whiteoaks now includes a formidable old lady and assorted aunts, uncles, sisters, and brothers.
8. Whiteoaks of Jalna
Finch, the awkward, misunderstood musical genius of the family, finds growing up difficult. Events reach a climax when his eccentric old grandmother dies and leaves her fortune to him.
9. Finch’s Fortune
The fortune left Finch is still a bone of contention in the Whiteoak family. Renny is holding aloof, the rest are eagerly grasping at help. On a visit to England, Finch is subjected to the bitterness of hopeless love.
10. The Master of Jalna
Renny attempts to carry on the family tradition after the death of his grandfather. He faces a financial crisis in the effort to keep the estate intact.
11. Whiteoak Harvest
Renny and Alayne Whiteoak reach a marital crisis with tragic undertones. An old uncle returns to Jalna, and later young Wakefield, after a stay at a monastery, comes home.
12. Wakefield’s Course
The continuing saga of the Whiteoak family from the spring of 1939 to the fall of 1940. Focuses on Wakefield, a successful actor, and his bittersweet love affair.
13. Return to Jalna
This episode begins with World War II and shows the brothers coming home from the war and settling down, soon with children of their own.
14. Renny’s Daughter
Renny’s daughter travels to Ireland and becomes involved in a frustrating romance.
15. Variable Winds of Jalna
Renny’s daughter, the young Adeline, plans to marry her Irish lover, much to her father’s displeasure. Meg and Finch find new loves, and old Nicholas dies, leaving various legacies.
16. Centenary at Jalna
Traces the activities of the Whiteoak family in the mid-fifties, a period climaxed by the one hundredth anniversary celebration of the oldest of the family residences. An alienated brother, a neurotic child, and a reluctant bride-to-be star in this episode.
Mazo de la Roche: Rich and Famous Writer, by Heather Kirk
The author uncovers a period in de la Roche’s childhood, between the ages of 9 and 15, where she lived and went to school in Orillia – a period unknown to her previous biographers. Included are photos and a chronology of important names and events.
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