The Flower of the Chapdelaines

ISBN-13: 9781565549746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 350 str.

George Washington Cable

Opis

In the "Vieux Carri1/2" of New Orleans, the last remnant of old
Creole life in the city, Geoffrey Chester, a young lawyer, is struck by the
charm of a Creole beauty whom he daily meets on his way to the office. It is
love at first sight. But because of the exclusivity of the Creole society to
which she belongs, the affair seems destined to be limited to sight. When a
bookseller consults him about an old manuscript, Chester finds that Aline
Chapdelaines is its owner. The fate of this manuscript and of Chesteri1/2s love
for Aline is the theme of a most original romance, in this depiction of the old
ri1/2gime of New Orleans, written with the delicacy and beauty for which George W.
Cable is known.