Bøger af George Washington Cable

At the centre of this novel is a story of two lovers from feuding Creole families in early 19th century New Orleans. The conversations in patois, the scenes between the lovers, the Creole spring and the French quarter helped make George Washington Cable famous in America in the 1880s.

Book Excerpt: him would have spent his first earnings, as other ambitious ones did, for a saddle; but 'Thanase Beausoleil had bought a fiddle.He had hardly got it before he knew how to play it. Yet, to the father's most welcome surprise, he remained just as bold a rider and as skilful a thrower of the arriatte as ever. He came into great demand for the Saturday-night balls. When the courier with a red kerchief on a wand came galloping round, the day before, from île to île, --for these descendants of a maritime race call their homestead groves islands, --to tell where the ball was to be, he would assert, if there was even a hope of it, that 'Thanase was to be the fiddler.In this way 'Thanase and his pretty little jarmaine--first cousin--Zoséphine, now in her fourteenth year, grew to be well acquainted. For at thirteen, of course, she began to move in society, which meant to join in the contra-dance. 'Thanase did not dance with her, or with any one. She wRead More

This book, "The Flower Of The Chapdelaines", by Cable George Washington, is a replication of a book originally published before 1918. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.

This book, "Dr. Sevier", by Cable George Washington, is a replication of a book originally published before 1889. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.