Setting forth formidable arguments for racial equality, Cable's novel of feuding Creole families in early nineteenth-century New Orleans blends postβCivil War social dissent and Romanticism.
The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
β Scribed by Cable, George Washington
- Book ID
- 108915289
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 265 KB
- Series
- Penguin Classics
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101173701
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β¦ Synopsis
Setting forth formidable arguments for racial equality, Cable's novel of feuding Creole families in early nineteenth-century New Orleans blends postβCivil War social dissent and Romanticism.
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