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Strange True Stories of Louisiana
9781565540385
Regular price $8.99 Sale price $6.74 Save 25%Revealing historical tales of the Southern mystique.,
“From various necessities of the case I am sometimes the story-teller, and sometimes, in the reader’s interest, have to abridge; but I add no fact and trim naught of value away. . . . In time, place, circumstance, in every essential feature, I give them as I got them—strange stories that truly happened, all partly, some wholly, in Louisiana.”
—George W. Cable
Featuring seven factual accounts of life and history in the area, this compilation includes tales of French nuns, haunted houses, and even a Union woman trapped behind Civil War battle lines. Cable brings together all the unusual and unique aspects of New Orleans and the South in this literary collection.
Old Creole Days
9781455627493
Regular price $19.95 Sale price $14.96 Save 25%These stories reflect the Creole way of life during the transitory post-Civil War period.
The Grandissimes
9781565549012
Regular price $7.99 Sale price $5.99 Save 25%Criticized in 1880 for its portrayal of forbidden love and the clash of cultures, this novel is now considered a masterful critique of racial and social inequality.
Evangeline
9781565546585
Regular price $6.95 Sale price $5.21 Save 25%The heartbreaking story of two Acadian lovers separated during the expulsion of the French settlers from Nova Scotia.
