Bylow Hill

By George Washington Cable and F C (Frederick Coffay) Yohn

Book Overview

""Bylow Hill"" is a novel by George W. Cable. Set in the late 1800s, the story takes place in the town of Bayou St. John, Louisiana. The main character, Maurice Mainwaring, is a young man from the North who moves to the South to start a new life. He falls in love with a local girl named Palmyre, but their relationship is complicated by the racial tensions of the time. Palmyre is a Creole woman, and Maurice is white, which makes their romance scandalous in the eyes of the community. The novel explores themes of love, race, and social class, as well as the clash between Northern and Southern cultures. As Maurice and Palmyre navigate their relationship, they must also confront the prejudices and expectations of those around them. The book is a poignant and thought-provoking look at the complexities of love and identity in a divided society.1902. Cable, American short-story writer and novelist, is known for his tales dealing with the Creoles of New Orleans. Bylow Hill begins: The old street, keeping its New England Sabbath afternoon so decently under its majestic elms, was as goodly an example of its sort as the late seventies of the century just gone could show. It lay along a north-and-south ridge, between a number of aged and unsmiling cottages, fronting on cinder sidewalks, and alternating irregularly with about as many larger homesteads that sat back in their well-shaded gardens with kindlier dignity and not so grim a self-assertion. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141793929X
• ISBN13: 9781417939299
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"