Armand Durand: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Armand Durand by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 19 original MP3 tracks, 7:41:58 running time and a link to listen.
Armand Durand, credited to Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Armand Durand by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon. Read in English by Bruce Pirie 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 story deals with troubling aspects of parental, sibling, and marital relationships. Armand Durand may be one of the best Canadian novels that no one has 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
Recording facts
- Recording title: Armand Durand
- Author credits: Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 19
- Listed recording duration: 7:41:58
Catalogue topics
- Quebec
- Montreal
- alcohol
- realism
- jealousy
- family relationships
- sibling rivalry
- french canada
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter I — 19:37
- 02 - Chapter II — 23:40
- 03 - Chapter III — 22:05
- 04 - Chapter IV — 24:18
- 05 - Chapter V — 17:36
- 06 - Chapter VI — 42:17
- 07 - Chapter VII — 16:59
- 08 - Chapter VIII — 17:36
- 09 - Chapter IX — 21:31
- 10 - Chapter X — 18:09
- 11 - Chapter XI — 20:28
- 12 - Chapter XII — 39:44
- 13 - Chapter XIII — 13:42
- 14 - Chapter XIV — 32:45
- 15 - Chapter XV — 24:18
- 16 - Chapter XVI — 31:25
- 17 - Chapter XVII — 36:17
- 18 - Chapter XVIII — 18:31
- 19 - Chapter XIX — 20:59
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