Evangeline; A Tale of Acadie (Classic Edition)

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Peter Henry Pearson, Alice Mary Longfellow, et al.

Book Overview

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic 1847 epic poem Evangeline , subtitled "A Tale of Acadie," tells the moving story of the French-speaking Acadian settlers of Canada and Maine during the 1750s.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1434417727
• ISBN13: 9781434417725
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Great poem ; wrong book

Same poem. In 1960’s paper back. I asked for decorative cover and got a different book than what was showed in picture. This is not worth $11 + I want a refund and return label .

Incorrect cover.

I am typically very pleased with my purchases here and have been purchasing here for several years; however, I selected a specific cover (and paid an extra $4 for said cover) and did not receive the correct one. Not only that, I received a cover that was not even listed as an option. Nothing is wrong with the content of the book, but I am very displeased with the lack of loyalty. If a customer selects an image of a book, they should receive the book in that image.

For all who love Evangeline, this will not disappoint!

I have a passion for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's lyrical lines of Evangeline. Therefore, I was uneasy in the purchase of Evangeline, A Novel. I shouldn't have been. Finis Fox's insight into the lives, loves and losses of the Acadians is remarkable. He adds to the story lines rather than detracting from them. His words are at once romantic and colorful, lulling you into passive reflection. The emotions are all there, the joy, the pain and the suffering. He does not stray far from Longfellow's poem, using the same names of people and places. It is a story worth reading! It would be worth the price if it were twice as much. I wish it could have been longer, but in staying true to Longfellow, the story moved much the same as did the poem. If you loved Evangeline, you will love this novel as much or maybe more!

Evangeline by Longfellow

Evangeline is Longfellow's masterpiece. The poem begins withthe famous "forest primeval" . The reader is taken to the homeof the Acadian farmers and the famous village reminescentof a variety of tradespeople. The work describes wholecommunities dispersed and separated from the homeland in themid-1700s. Evangeline and Gabriel flee home and experiencethe pain of separation despite the fact that Gabriel seems tokeep a step ahead during a major part of the story. The workattests to the beauty and strength of a woman's devotion.In many ways, our fate and destiny tend to be random events which are out of our immediate control. This work traces thefate of important characters living in a state of uncontrolledflux and uncertainty . Readers of the poem will discoverhow the story unfolds and the difficult choices presentedat various stages of Longfellow's journey. The work iswritten utilizing an advanced vocabulary typical of thewriters during this period .

Classic tale of star crossed lovers

This classic American poem is a great story about French Canadian newly-weds, Evangeline and Gabriel, caught up in a tragic moment of history. On the day of their wedding in 1755 in Nova Scotia, all the French men are summoned together by the commander of the British troops. They are told that all their lands, dwellings, and animals are forfeited to the crown and that they will be transported to other lands. The villages and farms are burned. The people are loaded onto ships. Evangeline and Gabriel are separated onto different ships. They are scattered throughout the continent in what is called by French Canadians "le grand derangement." Evangeline searches endlessly for Gabriel hoping to renew their lives together. The history is true; the lovers are legendary. This monstrous crime of history is brought to life wonderfully by relating it through the lives of separated young lovers. The poem is written in unrhymed hexameter which gives it a timeless appeal. It almost reads like a short story rather than a 19th century poem. I got interested in this story after visiting Nova Scotia this summer and meeting the French Canadians who live there. After learning their sad history, I wanted to read this book. This edition has a 31 page Introduction by C. Bruce Ferguson that recounts the historic events portrayed and the story of how Longfellow came to write about them. It also explores the historicity of the main characters who have become legends on their own. There are 12 pages of black and white illustrations from books and movies which help to bring the setting and characters to life. This is a wonderful edition of a classic of American literature and is highly recommended.

Highly recommended

I heard about this book from my mom a few weeks ago after I went to see the movie Serendipity. I told her about the plot of the two people in love searching for one another and just missing every time. She said it reminded her of another story, Evangeline. Since i attend an engineering school I am always very eager to read books with real meaning behind them, given that all my textbooks focus on is wastewater treatment, biological processes, etc... So given that I wasn't really expecting too much but a relief from textbooks when I picked up this book. Little did I know it was soon to become one of my favorites. I was pleasantly surprised by the Christian influences behind the poem and found myself crying a lot more than I expected. I highly recommend this to anyone who has a great appreciation for well written, romantic poetry and literature.

A brief review and summary of Evangeline, by Longfellow

I read Evangeline, an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. If you think about poetry, you usually think that it's pretty short. But some of the world's most famous poetry is the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are each almost five hundred pages long! Evangeline takes place in Acadie, which is present-day Nova Scotia. Acadie was a colony of New France, but was then seized by the British in 1713. The British allowed the French to stay on, but in 1755 the British deported all 6,000 of Acadie's French residents. The Acadiens were sent to British colonies throughout the present-day Canada and the United States. Many went to Louisiana, which has a large Acadien population. Families were separated, children put on different ships from their parents'. Since the British were a large force at the time, it has always been told that the Acadiens were nasty to the British. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow decided to take a look at the story from a whole different view-the Acadiens'. He supports the view that the British were just plain mean and inhuman. Evangeline is about a beautiful woman named, of course, Evangeline. Her life is perfect, and her father is the richest man in their village of Grand-Pré. She has just become engaged to a really great guy named Gabriel. They are in love, and soon to become married, when the British sail into the harbor and announce that it's time to pack up and leave. Gabriel and his father are sent off on one ship, while Evangeline is deported to another place. Evangeline is heartbroken, and she searches and searches for her beloved Gabriel. Will she find him? Of course I won't tell! Read and find out! I would recommend this book, but you have to like poetry and happiness and sadness! I loved this book, and one thing made it especially interesting for me. It's a true story. Evangeline is a character based on a real Acadienne named Emmeline Labiche, who was deported, just like Evangeline. The best, and saddest, part is that my sixth-great-grandmother, Marie Hébert, suffered the same thing! When she was only ten, she was deported from Acadie to a whole new world. It must have been terrifying.