STRANGE TRUE STORIES OF LOUISIANA.
HOW I GOT THEM.
1882-89.
True stories are not often good art. The relations
and experiences of real men and women rarely fall
in such symmetrical order as to m...
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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 A...
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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 Orlea...
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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 mo...
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Strange True Stories of Louisiana
George Washington Cable
George Washington Cable