I enjoyed MORNING AT JALNA, despite its flaws. It's one of the weaker books in the Jalna series. In fact, a reviewer once stated that "she saw no reason why the book should have been written!" That's a rather harsh judgment, though, in my opinion. MORNING AT JALNA really does have a (sort of) int...
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 lay thinking about the journey. They were leaving London. When might she see it again? Perhaps never, with all the dangers of travel...
MARY WAKEFIELD is, chronologically, third book in the Jalna series, though it's not the third Jalna book that author Mazo de la Roche wrote. Compared to her original trilogy----JALNA, WHITEOAKS and FINCH'S FORTUNE, all set in the 1920's---it doesn't stand up very well. But even so, it's an intere...
With axe and long-handled billhook they cut away the saplings and the undergrowth. Then they attacked the trees. Now the axes were whetted to extraordinary sharpness. The man swung the axe and brought it down in a deft, slanting stroke on the proud bole. Then he struck upward, meeting the first i...
For Belle was happy in the expectation of marriage with this lithe Lothario, and he was happy in the certainty that he would seduce her. He spoke of the good state of his spirits one morning to Wilmott, as he carried his bacon and fried potatoes to him. Wilmott raised his ...
She gave it over to trying to make friends with them, in finding out what their studies had been and letting them show her their text-books. Some of these had been handed down from their father and uncles, some were forty years old, dog-eared and out of date, yet for some reason it was these the ...