{"product_id":"grandissimes-a-story-of-creole-life","title":"Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life (Penguin Classics) by George Washington Cable","description":"\u003cp\u003eSetting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in New Orleans in 1844,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Washington Cable\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebegan his writing career as a columnist and reporter for local newspapers. A talent scout from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eScribner's Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\"discovered\" the writer, and the nation's appetite for the exotic scenes and characters of the remnants of Creole civilization helped to make him popular. His first collection of Creole tales,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOld Creole Days\u003c\/i\u003e, was hailed as the equal of Hawthorne's tales of New England; Cable's first novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Grandissimes\u003c\/i\u003e, was constantly in print during his lifetime. He died in 1925.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Kreyling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches Southern literature and American literature. He has written two books: a study of the fiction of Eudora Welty, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEudora Welty's Achievement of Order,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand a literary-cultural study of Southern fiction from the 1820s to the 1970s, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFigures of the Hero in Southern Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTarget Age: 18 and up\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenguin Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePub Date: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDecember 01, 1988\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9780140433227\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e0.9\" H x 7.7\" L x 5.0\" W \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e368 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45549875921082,"sku":"9780140433227","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_6a5aec6a-21ca-4b32-989d-78862f1360eb.jpg?v=1769771588","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/grandissimes-a-story-of-creole-life","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}