Books with author George Washington 1844-1925 Cable

THE ADVENTURES OF FRANÇOISE AND SUZANNE. I.The Two Sisters34II.Making Up The Expedition37III.The Embarkation43IV.Alix Carpentier51V.Down Bayou Plaquemine.—the Fight With Wild Nature55VI.The Twice-married Countess61VII.Odd Partners In The Bolero Dance65VIII.A Bad Storm In A Bad Place69IX.Maggie And The Robbers73X.Alix Puts Away The Past80XI.Alix Plays Fairy.—parting Tears.84XII.Little Paris90XIII.The Countess Madelaine94XIV."Poor Little Alix!"99XV.The Discovery Of The Hat104XVI.The Ball108XVII.Picnic And Farewell116ALIX DE MORAINVILLE121SALOME MÜLLER, THE WHITE SLAVE.I.Salome and her Kindred145II.Six Months at Anchor148III.Famine at Sea150IV.Sold into Bondage155V.The Lost Orphans159VI.Christian Roselius162VII.Miller Versus Belmonti163VIII.The Trial169IX.The Evidence173X.The Crowning Proof178XI.Judgment180XII.Before the Supreme Court185THE "HAUNTED HOUSE" IN ROYAL STREET. I.As It Stands Now192II.Madame Lalaurie200III.A Terrible Revelation204IV.The Lady's Flight212V.A New Use219VI.Evictions223ATTALIE BROUILLARD. I.Furnished Rooms233II.John Bull236III.Ducour's Meditations239IV.Proxy243V.The Nuncupative Will248VI.Men can be Better than their Laws257WAR DIARY OF A UNION WOMAN IN THE SOUTH261I.Secession262II.The Volunteers.—Fort Sumter266III.Tribulation269IV.A Beleaguered City274V.Married279VI.How it was in Arkansas281VII.The Fight for Food and Clothing285VIII.Drowned out and starved out289IX.Homeless and Shelterless296X.Frights and Perils in Steele's Bayou302XI.Wild Times in Mississippi308XII.Vicksburg320XIII.Preparations for the Siege326XIV.The Siege itself334XV.Gibraltar falls343LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.From photographs of the originals, in possession of Mr. George W. Cable."Tonton"FrontispieceSome of the Manuscripts1Part of François's First Page34Part of First Page, "Alix Manuscript"121The Court Papers168The Entrance of the "Haunted House"194Printed on Wall Paper in the Siege of Vicksburg339Fac-simile of a Letter from Adj.-Gen. Thomas L. Snead349

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A few steps from the St. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans, brings you to and across Canal Street, the central avenue of the city, and to that corner where the flower-women sit at the inner and outer edges of the arcaded sidewalk, and make the air sweet with their fragrant merchandise. The crowd—and if it is near the time of the carnival it will be great—will follow Canal Street. But you turn, instead, into the quiet, narrow way which a lover of Creole antiquity, in fondness for a romantic past, is still prone to call the Rue Royale. You will pass a few restaurants, a few auction-rooms, a few furniture warehouses, and will hardly realize that you have left behind you the activity and clatter of a city of merchants before you find yourself in a region of architectural decrepitude, where an ancient and foreign-seeming domestic life, in second stories, overhangs the ruins of a former commercial prosperity, and upon every thing has settled down a long sabbath of decay. The vehicles in the street are few in number, and are merely passing through; the stores are shrunken into shops; you see here and there, like a patch of bright mould, the stall of that significant fungus, the Chinaman. Many great doors are shut and clamped and grown gray with cobweb; many street windows are nailed up; half the balconies are begrimed and rust-eaten, and many of the humid arches and alleys which characterize the older Franco-Spanish piles of stuccoed brick betray a squalor almost oriental.

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.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Strange True Stories Of Louisiana by George Washington Cable 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." 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.