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The novel Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family.
Paul Durand, a prosperous Québécois farmer, marries in quick succession two very different wives, and fathers two very different sons. The first son, Armand, delicate and bookish, is destined for a legal career in the city; the second, Paul Junior, tougher and down-to-earth, continues life on the farm. The novel probes troubling aspects of parental, sibling, and marital relationships.
Armand Durand may be one of the best Canadian novels that few readers have ever heard of. It was well received in both its English and French editions, but is today hard to find, especially in the original English. Silenced Sextet (1993), a study of 19th-century Canadian women authors whose works were initially popular but later slipped into obscurity, offers this assessment: “It is a mature novel, valuable for its complex human relationships and also for its glimpses of Montreal life in Leprohon’s own time and of rural Quebec life in somewhat earlier days.” (Summary by Bruce Pirie)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/cihm_08564
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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Magic Window:
BC Admin - The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "Chapter [##] of Armand Durand. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org. Recording by Bruce Pirie. Armand Durand, or A Promise Fulfilled, by Rosanna Leprohon. Chapter [##]."
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:- "Chapter [##] of Armand Durand by Rosanna Leprohon. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain. Recording by Bruce Pirie.
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of Chapter [##]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Armand Durand, by Rosanna Leprohon."
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes. - Example filename armanddurand_##_leprohon_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. armanddurand_01_leprohon_128kb.mp3)
- Example ID3 V2 tags
Artist: Rosanna Leprohon
Title: Chapter ##
Album: Armand Durand
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