The Grandissimes: a Story of Creole Life

Creator Charles Scribner's Sons (Publisher)
Coverage 1880
Repository University of Alabama's W. S. Hoole Special Collections
Collection Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books
Number PS1244 .G6 1880
Copyright Unknown

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George Washington Cable's first novel, published in 1880, explores New Orleans Creole society in the early 1800s. Cable wrote of his story, “It contained as plain a Protest against the times in which it was written as against the earlier times in which its scenes were set.”



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