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Old Creole Days
George Washington Cable
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Olive rose suddenly, silently declined her mother's aid, and went alone to their chamber in the half-story.
Madame Delphine wandered drearily from door to window, from window to door, and presently into the newly-furnished front room which now seemed dismal beyond degree. There was a great Argand lamp in one corner. How she had labored that day to prepare it for evening illumination! A little beyond it, on the wall, hung a crucifix. She knelt under it, with her eyes fixed upon it, and thus silently remained until its outline was indistinguishable in the deepening shadows of evening.
She arose. A few minutes later, as she was trying to light the lamp, an approaching step on the sidewalk seemed to pause. Her heart stood still. She softly laid the phosphorus-box out of her hands. A shoe grated softly on th. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
George W. Cable has always been one of my favorite authors. This collection of his short stories is about life as a creole. His way of transforming Creole dialect into words never ceases to amaze me. A few of my favorites are "Posson Jone" and "Jean-Ah Poquelin." While these stories can be hard to k
I read this book for New Orleans Literature class. Otherwise, I wouldn't touch it. This is a book of short stories post-civil war. About people of color and creoles. My top three stories:
I enjoyed reading Belles Demoiselles Plantation. This story is about a man trying to buy another man's property.
I stumbled across this book in a used bookstore and am really glad I did. It is a book of short stories that really showed me New Orleans in the 1800's. I loved the descriptions of the sights, smells, sounds, and people. The stories are set while New Orleans was mostly French and Spanish speaking. S
Set in pre-Civil War times, but published in 1879, this is a series of mostly forgettable short stories of characters in New Orleans looking back to a better time before the invasion of non-French immigrants. The use of dialect causes some reading challenges. Most of the characters are of mixed race
Even in the nineteenth century, New Orleans was a subject for nostalgia. Areas that are now largely tourist dominated were then fading French- and Spanish-speaking quarters. Mixed-race women and the quadroon balls figure prominently here, so race and gender issues are, perhaps unsurprisingly, both p
Half of these stories are quite good, while the other half are a bit forgettable. That said, all of the stories exhibit the qualities and techniques that make Cable's prose so good. Chief among these are plots that advance in fits and starts with lots of backfill yet always with ambiguities and unan
Old New Orleans is truly George Washington Cable’s main character. To be sure, the great Louisiana writer of the late 19th century populates his short stories with fictive personages who possess fascinating characteristics and do interesting things; but what ultimately gives Cable’s work its power i