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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. |
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Vote: | For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go. |
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Vote: | It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803. |
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Vote: | 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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George Washington Cable (12 October, 1844 – 31 January, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native Louisiana. In his sense of the continuing influence of the dead upon the living, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner.
Biography Cable was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. At the end of the war in 1865 he went into journalism, writing for the New Orleans Picayune where he would remain through 1879. By that time he was a well established writer. His sympathy for civil rights and antipathy towards the harsh racism of the era showed in his writings, which earned him resentment by many white southerners. He moved to Massachusetts in 1884. He became friends with Mark Twain, and the two writers did speaking tours together.
Cable died in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
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