The complete online text of The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable.

The American novelist George Washington Cable (1844-1925) was an important regional writer whose best-received books were set in Louisiana. He was also an early Southern advocate of civil rights for African Americans. George Washington Cable was born in...

George Washington Cable's antecedents were not typical for a southern writer born prior to the Civil War. His father, George Washington Cable, Sr., came from an established Virginia line, while his mother, Rebecca Boardman Cable, was from a Calvinistic f...

George Washington Cable was the most significant Southern writer in the crucial years from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the first decades of the twentieth century. When he was born in New Orleans in 1844, Walden (1854) and Moby-Dick (1851) were no...

You ought to ... make some other arrangement, or presently you, too, will be ... under the shadow of the Ethiopian. --The Grandissimes When Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 8, 1865, what has since been labeled...