Evangeline's timeless story still touches hearts a century and a half after it first appeared. Re-told in modern prose, united with charming illustrations, this new edition for a new century has lost none of its old pathos or power. Love is eternal. So is Evangeline! Herb Adams, historian and Maine state legislatorRather than try to modernize or "dumb down" Longfellow's Victorian idiom, Herb Coursen has re-imagined the poem, in his own crisp and vivid language. It is a remarkable feat of translation-and one that master-translator Henry Longfellow would surely admire. Charles C. Calhoun, historian and author of Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life