Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cover: The Land of Evangeline (1874), oil on canvas by Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827-1889) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1889)
On the eve of their wedding, Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse are parted when the British deport the Acadian farmers of Grand-Pré in 1755. She spends her life searching for him across America, and finds him only when he is dying. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.