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A compilation of seven factual accounts of Louisiana life and history.

In the "Vieux CarrE" of New Orleans, the last remnant of oldCreole life in the city, Geoffrey Chester, a young lawyer, is struck by thecharm of a Creole beauty whom he daily meets on his way to the office. It islove at first sight. But because of the exclusivity of the Creole society towhich she belongs, the affair seems destined to be limited to sight. When abookseller consults him about an old manuscript, Chester finds that AlineChapdelaines...

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.

When The Grandissimes was first published in 1880, the book was criticized for its portrayal of forbidden love and the clash of cultures during the Reconstruction. Since then, the novel has been considered a masterful critique of racial and social inequality that resonates with readers even today. Cable's work has been compared to that of writers as varied as Balzac, John Kennedy Toole, and Henry James.

Louisiana is known for its rich, complex cultural heritage, but even in Louisiana, the question "What is a Creole?" is often answered in a number of ways. In Creoles of Louisiana, George Washington Cable knowledgeably addresses this question with precision and aplomb. Originally published in 1884, Creoles of Louisiana builds on earlier explorations of the lives of the white descendants of early French and Spanish immigrants during the transito...