The Grandissimes
A Story of Creole Life
$32.75
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 December 1988
Summary
Setting forth formidable arguments for racial equality, Cable’s novel of feuding Creole families in early nineteenth-century New Orleans blends post-Civil War social dissent and Romanticism.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140433227 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140433228 |
| Author: | George Washington Cable, Michael Kreyling |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 December 1988 |
| Weight: | 301g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
George Washington Cable
George Washington Cable was born in New Orleans in 1844. He began his writing career as a columnist and reporter for local newspapers. His first collection of Creole tales, Old Creole Days, was hailed as the equal of Hawthorne’s tales of New England. Cable’s first novel, The Grandissimes, was constantly in print during his lifetime. He died in 1925.
Michael Kreyling is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches Southern literature and American literature. He has written two books: a study of the fiction of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty’s Achievement of Order, and a literary-cultural study of Southern fiction from the 1820s to the 1970s, Figures of the Hero in Southern Narrative.
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