Mazo de la Roche





Mazo de la Roche

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born
January 15, 1879 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

died
July 12, 1961

gender
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Mazo de la Roche, born Mazo Louise Roche, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.

The Jalna series consists of sixteen novels that tell the story of the Canadian Whiteoak family from 1854 to 1954, although each of the novels can also be enjoyed as an independent story. In the world of the Whiteoaks, as in real life, people live and die, find success and fall to ruin. For the Whiteoaks, there remains something solid and unchanging in the midst of life's transience--the manor house and its rich surrounding farmland known as "Jalna." The author, Mazo de la Roche, gave the members of her fictitious family names from gravestones in Ontario's New Market cemetery, and the story itself balances somewh...more


Average rating: 3.84 · 1,362 ratings · 89 reviews · 25 distinct works
Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna, ...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1927 — 12 editions
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Mary Wakefield (Whiteoaks o...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1949 — 12 editions
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The Building Of Jalna
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1944 — 14 editions
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Whiteoaks Of Jalna
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1946 — 10 editions
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Return to Jalna (Whiteoaks ...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions
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Morning at Jalna
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1960 — 10 editions
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Whiteoak Heritage
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1940 — 9 editions
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Young Renny
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1935 — 5 editions
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The Master of Jalna (Whiteo...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1933 — 10 editions
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Renny's Daughter
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1951 — 5 editions
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More books by Mazo de la Roche…
The Building Of Jalna Morning at Jalna Mary Wakefield Young Renny Whiteoak Heritage Whiteoak Brothers Jalna
Whiteoaks of Jalna (16 books)
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