George Washington Cable
Novelist
1844-10-12 – 1925-01-31
George Washington Cable was an American novelist and essayist known for realistic depictions of Creole life in New Orleans. His notable works include Old Creole Days and The Grandissimes. His writing also criticized racial injustice in the post-Civil War South.
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Quotes by George Washington Cable
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And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
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There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!
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