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Краткое содержание: Эванжелина
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 8 parts
- Аудио скоро
Several days after her betrothal, Evangeline loses her village and begins a search for Gabriel across a continent.
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Эванжелина — кратко о книге
Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 1 h50 min fast, 1 h 15 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 14 500
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Сложное чтение long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- Первая публикация
- 1847by Генри Уодсворт Лонгфелло
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Эванжелина in short
Evangeline tells of a woman whose life is cut in two by a royal decree. In Grand-Pré she is betrothed to Gabriel, surrounded by a trusting community. Then the village is condemned, her father dies on the shore and the houses burn.
What Эванжелина is about
What happens to a village when a king decides it must disappear? Longfellow answers with a love story. On the evening Evangeline Bellefontaine signs her marriage contract with Gabriel Lajeunesse, English ships already lie anchored in the bay of Grand-Pré.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published Evangeline in 1847. It is a narrative poem in unrhymed lines, built on the forced removal of the Acadians, French-speaking farmers of what is now Nova Scotia. You follow one young woman from the betrothal feast to a search that carries her down the Mississippi and into the northern forests.
Для кого. You will enjoy this poem if you love sweeping love stories, journeys across wild landscapes, tales of faith under pressure, or stories that sound best read aloud.
The story in 8 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Grand-Pré is a village of open doors
The poem opens in Grand-Pré, a village beside the Minas Basin. The farmers have built dikes to hold back the tides, and they let the sea onto the meadows only at set times. Their houses are sturdy, framed in oak and chestnut.
Longfellow stresses how peaceful these people are. They keep no locks on their doors and no bars on their windows. The richest live simply, and the poorest have plenty. Each evening the Angelus bell rings, and smoke rises from a hundred hearths like incense.
The poem then narrows to one farm. Benedict Bellefontaine is the wealthiest farmer in the village, a hale man of seventy. His daughter Evangeline, seventeen, runs his household. Many young men knock at her door, but only one is welcome. That one is Gabriel, son of Basil the blacksmith. The two grew up together, and now their friendship has turned to love.
A way of life built on trust, shared work and prayer is shown in full before anything touches it.
Before you can mourn a place, you have to be allowed to love it.
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A joyful contract night under a shadow
Autumn arrives with the harvest in and a warm spell the farmers call All Saints Summer.
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The decree is read inside the church
The next morning the farmers walk in holiday clothes to Grand-Pré.
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Exile begins on the shore and in fire
That night Evangeline waits at her father's door with supper laid and the great armchair empty.
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Years of wandering lead down the Mississippi
Part two jumps ahead.
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From prairie fires to a Mission in the mountains
At Basil's house there is a feast, with Michael the fiddler playing and neighbors dancing.
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Constancy, faith and the question of justice
Beneath the plot, the poem is about faithfulness.
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A musical line and a landscape that feels
Longfellow writes in unrhymed lines with a steady, rolling beat, borrowed from the classical hexameter.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Evangeline Bellefontaine A gentle seventeen-year-old daughter of Grand-Pré's richest farmer, betrothed to Gabriel, who searches for him across North America with unwavering devotion.
- Gabriel Lajeunesse The blacksmith's son and Evangeline's childhood companion, brave and loving, who is carried away from her on the day of the expulsion.
- Benedict Bellefontaine Evangeline's cheerful father, a wealthy white-haired farmer who trusts in peace and sings old Norman songs by his fireside.
- Basil the blacksmith Gabriel's strong, hot-tempered father, a respected smith who denounces the English and later becomes a prosperous herdsman in Louisiana.
- Father Felician The village priest and teacher who calms the angry crowd and later guides and comforts Evangeline on her journey.
- René Leblanc The elderly, kindly notary who draws up the marriage contract and comforts the villagers with a tale about the justice of God.
- Michael the fiddler A silver-haired musician who plays at the betrothal feast and later brings music and cheer to the exiles in Louisiana.
How it ends (spoiler)
After many years Evangeline is a gray-haired Sister of Mercy in Philadelphia, tending the sick during a plague. In the almshouse she finds Gabriel among the dying. He recognizes her for a moment, and she holds him as he dies, thanking God. The lovers are buried side by side in nameless graves.
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Вопросы о книге Эванжелина
What is Evangeline about?
It tells of Evangeline Bellefontaine, a young Acadian woman whose village is destroyed and whose betrothed, Gabriel, is taken from her. She spends years traveling across North America to find him, held up by faith and love.
Who are the Acadians in Evangeline?
They are French-speaking farmers who settled in the region of Nova Scotia. The poem shows them as a peaceful farming community that British authorities force onto ships, scattering families along the coasts of North America.
Is Evangeline based on a true story?
The poem is fiction, but it rests on the real removal of the Acadian people in the 1750s. Longfellow published it in 1847, and its heroine, Evangeline, is his own invention.
Is Evangeline easy to read aloud?
Its long, flowing lines have a steady rhythm, and its vivid pictures of farms, rivers and storms are easy to follow by ear. The story moves in clear stages from place to place, which helps listeners.
What is the main message of Evangeline?
The poem celebrates patient, faithful love and the strength found in faith. It suggests that devotion keeps its worth even through loss, and that a lost home lives on in the stories people tell.
Как сослаться на это издание
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/evangeline.
Longfellow, H. W. (2026). Evangeline. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/evangeline (Original work published 1847)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/evangeline.
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