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Inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, Evangeline is the sparkling debut novel by Ben Farmer. As early settlers are driven out of mid-eighteenth-century Nova Scotia, the beautiful seventeen-year-old Evangeline Bellefontaine is torn from her fiancé on the eve of their wedding. Heartbroken but determined, Evangeline—along with an illegal trapper and a priest—sets out on a ten-year journey across America, down the Mississippi to Louisiana to seek her true love. Evangeline is an enrapturing tale that artfully blends history, romance, and adventure with unforgettable characters.
Ben Farmer lives in Maryland, where he was born and raised. He graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in history. Since, he has worked as a teacher, an editor, and in a booking agency for musicians. Evangeline is his first novel.
Ben Farmer lives in Maryland, where he was born and raised. He graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in history. Since, he has worked as a teacher, an editor, and in a booking agency for musicians. Evangeline is his first novel.
Praise for Evangeline:
“Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won’t soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.” --Keith Donohue, The New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child
“Majestic and stately...Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.” –Katharine Weber, author of True Confections
“Farmer delivers an evocative impression of American colonial and frontier life; his descriptions of everything from the Maryland frontier to a Louisiana swamp settlement give a real sense of the New World’s newness. A meticulously-rendered setting . . a passion-driven plot.” --Publishers Weekly
“A historical romance written in unadorned prose, Farmer’s Evangeline will satisfy readers who allow themselves to swoon, who enjoy sentimentality . . . a kind of fiction that’s underrepresented in U.S. bookstores.” --ForeWord magazine
"Farmer has reinvested this classic adventure tale with plenty of historical detail and character traits that will surely bring it alive for many new readers.” --Bookreporter.com
“The thing that sets Farmer’s book apart is that it is pretty close to the original story as told in Longfellow’s poem...acurate and interesting.” -- Baton Rouge Advocate
“Farmer does a yeoman’s job in setting the poem in prose…It’s a grand tale told by a wonderful storyteller.” -- Owen Sound Sun Times
“Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won’t soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.” --Keith Donohue, The New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child
“Majestic and stately...Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.” –Katharine Weber, author of True Confections
“Farmer delivers an evocative impression of American colonial and frontier life; his descriptions of everything from the Maryland frontier to a Louisiana swamp settlement give a real sense of the New World’s newness. A meticulously-rendered setting . . a passion-driven plot.” --Publishers Weekly
“A historical romance written in unadorned prose, Farmer’s Evangeline will satisfy readers who allow themselves to swoon, who enjoy sentimentality . . . a kind of fiction that’s underrepresented in U.S. bookstores.” --ForeWord magazine
"Farmer has reinvested this classic adventure tale with plenty of historical detail and character traits that will surely bring it alive for many new readers.” --Bookreporter.com
“The thing that sets Farmer’s book apart is that it is pretty close to the original story as told in Longfellow’s poem...acurate and interesting.” -- Baton Rouge Advocate
“Farmer does a yeoman’s job in setting the poem in prose…It’s a grand tale told by a wonderful storyteller.” -- Owen Sound Sun Times
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