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  <title><![CDATA[Evangeline  (English)]]></title>
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  <default_description>The famous poem with a historical introduction and numerous color and black and white illustrations. First published in 1847, Evangeline is a classic of romantic literature that tells the epic story of a young Acadian couple who are separated during the tragic Acadian expulsion of 1755.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1847</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Dee]]></name>
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  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Poetry lovers romantics, people who don't have to have happy endings.]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[I've reread this over and over throughout my life.]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 28 08:39:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 28 08:44:23 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Again it's Longfellow at his best, and a love story of a people the world didn't understand so they were shunned, illtreated,  segregated and displaced.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16603564]]></url>
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    <review id="11815187">
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    <name><![CDATA[J]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 06 16:20:23 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 28 15:44:46 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this little book up in Nova Scotia, where the story of Evangeline begins, and read it on my way back to Philadelphia, where it ends. It's the tale of the ill fated romance of Evangeline and Gabriel. It’s also the tale of the Acadians, exiled by the British in the 1750s. It’s not passion...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11815187">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="65193853">
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    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 27 17:45:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 27 17:55:11 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This edition of Longfellow's Evangline has a good 20 page history of the Acadians at the beginning of the book.  I chose this particular version to allow me to understand more fully the story within the poem, and it's people and history.  ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65193853]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="76545889">
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    <name><![CDATA[Christopher]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Carbondale, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 02 19:55:55 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 08 17:20:09 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I appropriately choked up a bit at the end.  On an unrelated note, I had a neat edition published in 1911.  It is very small and doesn't have an ISBN number.  It also informs me that it was &quot;Set up and electotyped September, 1900.&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="58752311">
    <user id="90972">
    <name><![CDATA[Ann]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Peck, KS]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 07 10:21:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 07 10:21:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Utterly beautiful. Longfellow was a genius wordsmith.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58752311]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="42027436">
    <user id="1387569">
    <name><![CDATA[Margaret]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 05 17:23:25 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 05 17:25:10 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[excellently and beautifully sad and depressing]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42027436]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="44234128">
    <user id="1951958">
    <name><![CDATA[Julia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Branford, CT]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 24 19:09:40 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 24 19:09:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[worst book ever]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44234128]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="43705504">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ed]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lynnwood, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 20 10:51:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 20 10:51:04 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[PG download.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43705504]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="35928433">
    <user id="1008845">
    <name><![CDATA[Amit]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 22 07:46:24 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 22 20:13:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[heart breaking, historical poem/love story.  this poem (100 pages long) is mostly a historically-based account of how the Acadians (French Canadians) in Nova Scotia were deprived of their land and homes and forcibly removed by the British (pre-1776) despite a peace treaty and how subsequently settle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35928433">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35928433]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="30309777">
    <user id="1430964">
    <name><![CDATA[Melissa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 16 10:12:09 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 16 10:12:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1713, the crown of England took control of Acadia (Nova Scotia) and shipped thousands of French settlers to other lands including the most famous: Louisiana where they are known as Cajuns. This poem (a VERY long one at that) tells the story of young Evangeline, after being driven from her homelan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30309777">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30309777]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="42488279">
    <user id="974210">
    <name><![CDATA[Erik]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[poets?]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Ms. Pope]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1961</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 09 13:02:38 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 04 21:12:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>1</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Teachers can be very odd, even in the public schools.  We were assigned to read--mostly outloud in class--and memorize great portions of Evangeline in fifth grade at the Oak Ridge School in unincorporated Kane County in Illinois.  How our teacher expected us to understand this tale of virtual genoci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42488279">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42488279]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="23515833">
    <user id="1203669">
    <name><![CDATA[Jenna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Shepherdsville, KY]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 02 09:06:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 02 10:19:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay.  about this book.  it was way, way too sad.  i would've enjoyed it if evangeline had found gabriel in new orleans and gotten married.  the book was just too sad.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23515833]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="34473818">
    <user id="1525021">
    <name><![CDATA[Kitty]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 03 18:05:41 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 03 18:06:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[While fiction, this really could have happened.  The story of the Acadians who were expelled from Nova Scotia and later settled in Louisiana.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34473818]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="17434536">
    <user id="54451">
    <name><![CDATA[Anna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Houston, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 10 08:05:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 10 08:07:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read this since high school and since visiting the heart of Louisiana's Acadiana last fall, I've wanted to read it again. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17434536]]></url>
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    <review id="27018411">
    <user id="409717">
    <name><![CDATA[Julie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 11 23:56:08 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 19 15:53:49 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful if somewhat melodramatic poem from my favorite poet.  Very interesting meter I hadn't read much of before.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27018411]]></url>
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    <review id="21058641">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andrea]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who likes poetry]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Dr. Johnston (as a class)]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Evangeline while I was working on my Bachelor's.  Such a sad poem.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="395412">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 23 08:07:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 23 08:07:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is the forest primeval/the murmuring pines and the hemlock.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/395412]]></url>
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    <review id="37548025">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Nov 12 14:10:31 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 15 08:36:11 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fictionalized account of the Acadian exile.]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="34326677">
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  <date_updated>Wed Oct 01 18:20:19 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[STILL stands the forest primeval...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the forest primeval.]]></body>
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