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Book The Grandissimes  A Story of Creole Life

Download or read book The Grandissimes A Story of Creole Life written by George W. Cable and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Grandissimes

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  • Author : George Washington Cable
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-11-20
  • ISBN : 9781540520364
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book The Grandissimes written by George Washington Cable and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life is a novel by George Washington Cable, published as a book in 1880 by Charles Scribner's Sons after appearing as a serial in Scribner's. The historical romance depicts race and class relations in New Orleans at the start of the 19th century, immediately following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.[3] The book examines the lives and loves of the extended Grandissime family, which includes members from different races and classes in Creole society.[4] The novel juxtaposes a romanticized version of the French Creole culture with the atrocities committed under the European-American system of slavery in the United States Honor� Grandissime, head of the French Creole family, takes in Joseph Frowenfeld, whose family has died of yellow fever. He describes the New Orleans caste system, which had three racial groups, to Frowenfeld, an abolitionist. His desire to end slavery would destroy the labor base of the plantations, which revenues supported city life. Frowenfeld and Grandissime's uncle Agricola Fusilier, soon get into a dispute. Fusilier seeks to preserve the Grandissime way of life, which means continuing slavery.

Book The Grandissimes

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  • Author : George Washington Cable
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-04-22
  • ISBN : 9781545553473
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Grandissimes written by George Washington Cable and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life By George Washington Cable (First published 1880) This historical romance depicts race and class relations in New Orleans at the start of the 19th century, immediately following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The book examines the lives and loves of the extended Grandissime family, which includes members from different races and classes in Creole society. The novel juxtaposes a romanticized version of the French Creole culture with the atrocities committed under the European-American system of slavery in the United States.

Book The Grandissimes

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  • Author : George Washington Cable
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1880
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book The Grandissimes written by George Washington Cable and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Creole Days

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  • Author : George Washington Cable
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Old Creole Days written by George Washington Cable and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Creoles of Louisiana

Download or read book The Creoles of Louisiana written by George Washington Cable and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strange True Stories of Louisiana

Download or read book Strange True Stories of Louisiana written by George W. Cable and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George W. Cable

Book The Negro Question

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  • Author : George Washington Cable
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Negro Question written by George Washington Cable and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Grandissimes

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  • Author : George Cable
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-01-17
  • ISBN : 9781495239465
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The Grandissimes written by George Cable and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic novel of feuding Creole families in early 19th century New Orleans, in which Cable puts forth compelling arguments for racial equality.

Book The Grandissimes

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  • Author : George Washington Cable
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Grandissimes written by George Washington Cable and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Puritanism to Postmodernism

Download or read book From Puritanism to Postmodernism written by Richard Ruland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.

Book The Absentee

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  • Author : Maria Edgeworth
  • Publisher : The Floating Press
  • Release : 2009-06-01
  • ISBN : 1775415929
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book The Absentee written by Maria Edgeworth and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.

Book New Orleans City Guide

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  • Author : Works Progress Administration
  • Publisher : Garrett County Press
  • Release : 2011-08-15
  • ISBN : 189105340X
  • Pages : 519 pages

Download or read book New Orleans City Guide written by Works Progress Administration and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration produced this delightfully detailed portrait of New Orleans. Containing recipes, photographs and folklore, it is consistently hailed as one of the best books produced about the city. Remarkably, many of the sites and attractions the WPA chronicled in 1938 are still around today.

Book Old Creole Days  A Story of Creole Life  by

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  • Author : George Washington Cable
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-11-20
  • ISBN : 9781540521101
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Old Creole Days A Story of Creole Life by written by George Washington Cable and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 - January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer."[1] In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. He also wrote articles critical of contemporary society. Due to hostility against him after two 1885 essays encouraging racial equality and opposing Jim Crow, Cable moved with his family to Northampton, Massachusetts. He lived there for the next thirty years, then moved to Florida.

Book Reading Africa into American Literature

Download or read book Reading Africa into American Literature written by Keith Cartwright and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Joel Chandler Harris, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and many others in the context of the history, spiritual traditions, folklore, music, linguistics, and politics out of which they were written. Cartwright grounds his study of American writings in texts from the Senegambian/Old Mali region of Africa. Reading epics, fables, and gothic tales from the crossroads of this region and the American South, he reveals that America's foundational African presence, along with a complex set of reactions to it, is an integral but unacknowledged source of the national culture, identity, and literature.

Book The Cavalier

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  • Author : George W. Cable
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2018-09-20
  • ISBN : 3734018404
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book The Cavalier written by George W. Cable and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Cavalier by George W. Cable

Book The Grandissimes

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  • Author : George Washington Cable
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 0820310204
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book The Grandissimes written by George Washington Cable and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the mysterious shadowed city of New Orleans in the years immediately following the Louisiana Purchase, George Washington Cable's classic novel of the Old South traces the declining fortunes of a family and their society as they struggle with long-standing divisions of race and class and with the ideals of democracy and liberty imposed by their new American rulers. The hero of the novel, Joseph Frowenfeld, is a young scientist who moves to Louisiana to make his fortune. An outsider, Frowenfeld learns the ways of the Creoles and of the few Americans in the city through his acquaintance with the proud Grandissime family. He comes to know Honore Grandissime, the young leader of the clan, as well as his half-brother, a prosperous free man of color also named Honore, who has the power to rescue his relations from financial ruin.