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The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life

✍ Scribed by Cable, George Washington

Book ID: 108915262
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Tongue: English
Weight: 350 KB
Series: Penguin Classics
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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