Excerpt from Evangeline: A Romance of Acadia Later there was Evangeline, a tragedy of the humble which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made into an American epic whose measures will always sing to us of the faith in affliction of an exiled American peasantry and of their belief that love is the ultimate conqueror. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.