All Mazo De la Roche Audiobooks

2 Audiobooks

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt

Explorers of the Dawn

by Mazo De la Roche

About the author

Born in Newmarket, Ontario, in 1879, Mazo de la Roche became one of Canada's best-known novelists. She wrote many books, but her reputation rests most strongly on the Jalna series, a long-running set of novels centered on the Whiteoak family and their estate. The first of these, Jalna, won a major Atlantic Monthly prize and helped launch an international readership.

De la Roche's fiction is remembered for its strong sense of place, lively family conflict, and gift for carrying characters across decades. Over time, the Jalna books grew into a multivolume saga that kept readers returning to the same family generation after generation.

She died in Toronto in 1961, but her work has remained a familiar part of Canadian literary history. For many readers, she is still the writer most closely linked with Jalna and the world she built around it.