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  • Published: 1 December 1988
  • ISBN: 9780140433227
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $39.99

The Grandissimes

A Story of Creole Life





Setting forth formidable arguments for racial equality, Cable’s novel of feuding Creole families in early nineteenth-century New Orleans blends post–Civil War social dissent and Romanticism.

  • Published: 1 December 1988
  • ISBN: 9780140433227
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $39.99
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