Steamboat Gothic

by Frances Parkinson Keyes

Book Overview

London published Fiction This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9997403479
• ISBN13: 9789997403476
• Release Date: June 1952
• Publisher: Julian Messner, Inc.
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting novel about Louisiana's culture

I have not read this book yet. I do know much about the author and have enjoyed many of her books about her time in Louisiana. I am a native New Orleanian now living in Baton Rouge. I have a desire to collect as many of her books as possible. Now I am reading "Dinner at Antoinne's" by Frances P. Keyes. I am sure it is as good a read as this one.

Steamboat Gambler turned Gentleman to Marry a "Lady"

The steamboat gambler got rich and bought a mansion in the style of steamboat gothic to take his lady-bride to live in and to keep his past hidden from her. Then he passes a great heritage and tradition on to his "grandson", Larry. Keyes at her usual top form, in story, grammar, research and form.

A 1952 novel by one of the best historical novelists

"Steamboat Gothic" is a term for the style of architecture ". . . which was inspired by the floating palaces that plied the Mississippi River during its Golden Age." From the book's forward by the author. Though the tale of a riverman and his family, there is little actual river in the book. There is, however, lots of accurate "period" in the book. As you would expect from F.P.K., it is a good read.