Old creole days : a story of creole life
(2011)

Fiction

eBook

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Barnes & Noble, 2011
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781411435728 MWT15334828, 1411435729 15334828
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Published in 1879, this collection consists of seven short stories portraying Creole life in New Orleans. While glamorizing an exotic and enticing city, Cable also introduces social satire to round out the picture of this incredibly diverse locale. The stories are notable for their easy humor, lack of sentimentality, and pioneering use of dialect

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