Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life (Penguin Classics) by George Washington Cable 52 weeks in the vein of The

in the vein of The Hobbit

she is traveling the world

"The earth science is simple but made glorious by the illustrations

From Frederick Lewis Allen

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Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life (Penguin Classics) by George Washington Cable 52 weeks in the vein of TheSetting 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. Born in New Orleans in 1844, George Washington Cable began his writing career as a columnist and reporter for local newspapers. A talent scout from Scribner's Monthly "discovered" the writer, and the nation's appetite for the exotic scenes and characters of the