Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - Softcover

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1539060926 ISBN 13: 9781539060925

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Evangeline A Tale of Acadie Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. Evangeline describes the betrothal of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval. The poem then follows Evangeline across the landscapes of America as she spends years in a search for him, at some times being near to Gabriel without realizing he was near. Finally she settles in Philadelphia and, as an old woman, works as a Sister of Mercy among the poor. While tending the dying during an epidemic she finds Gabriel among the sick, and he sadly dies in her arms.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1539060926
• ISBN 13: 9781539060925
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38