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.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.