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    The Grandissimes (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Story of Creole Life

    By George Washington Cable

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    Set in New Orleans shortly after the Louisiana Purchase, The Grandissimes, published in 1880, focuses on the Grandissime family, a large and powerful New Orleans creole clan with a racially mixed heritage.  It is a searing indictment of racism and the class system of the Old South.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateFeb 8, 2011
    ISBN9781411435278
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    The Grandissimes (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Story of Creole Life
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    George Washington Cable

    George Washington Cable (1844–1925) was an American writer born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Cable’s family was initially wealthy due to their position as slaveholders. Yet, after his father’s untimely death they lost most of their fortune. The young Cable enrolled in the military and fought as a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. It proved to be a lifechanging experience that would influence his future endeavors. In 1870, he became a journalist and spent years honing his skills before publishing his first novel, The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life. Cable’s work is best known for its exploration of Southern politics, culture and race relations.

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    • 4/5
      The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable was published in 1880 after first appearing as a serial novel and tells the tale of two Creole families in early 1800 New Orleans.I was disappointed that my Kindle edition didn't include the illustrations that accompany the original book. However, I looked them up on Gutenberg.org. The Grandissimes is a fine piece of literature. There are many well drawn characters and descriptions of life in the exotic setting of New Orleans at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Using the character of Frowenfeld, a northerner of German extraction, as our guide, Cable educates us about Louisiana Creole society and uses Frowenfeld to voice the author's criticisms of slavery.I found the book to be challenging reading for a number of reasons, all of which I blame on my own shortcomings:1. The 19th Century writing style is difficult to acclimate to for this modern reader. I took about 9-10 chapters to fully settle into the novel. Even so, I sometimes found myself confused as to what exactly was meant by the author.2. Cable wrote the dialogue in Creole and Plantation dialect and he did so exceptionally well. However, I found it slowed down my reading quite a bit as I needed to speak the dialogue aloud to myself in order to comprehend what was being said. 3. The style of prose included long descriptions of the landscape and environs interspersed with the narrative also served to limit forward movement of the storyline. I did learn a lot about the European Creoles, the mixed race Creoles and their interactions with each other and with the slave population. For anyone who's interested in New Orleans and Creole culture, this book is worth the effort. I'm glad I read The Grandissimes.
    • 4/5
      A fun and well rendered tale of New Orleans in 1803-4, Creoles, Blacks, Quadroons, and Whites amongst the fascinating cast of characters. Sometimes the number of characters and the speech in dialect left me confused but it all fell together by the end.