Second-place winner of the 2019 IndieReader Discovery Award for Fiction First published 1919-1923 in the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper, the thirty-nine tales that comprise this volume include short stories, preservationist essays and character sketches of the author's beloved city. Most of the works in this book have been out of print since they were originally published. In this rediscovered collection of Lyle Saxon's early short stories and character sketches, readers will take great pleasure in seeing in print for the first time in nearly a century some of the author's early classics such as The Last Reunion and Who Would Hunt for Spanish Doubloons and Pieces of Eight? Also among the stories in this volume are metaphorical visions of Saxon's childhood, when Saxon was abandoned by his father and raised by his mother and grandparents. He draws other stories from contemporary headlines or images of antebellum gentility. In each, Saxon pays special attention to the odd quirks expressed by that most-honored of New Orleans species, the French Quarter character.

A Lyle Saxon Reader: Lost Stories of the French Quarter and Buried Treasure

Literature & Fiction

Saxon, Lyle

United States

Cultured Oak Press

Lyle Saxonï¿½s superbly written account examines Lafitteï¿½s fascinating career and frees the truth of the pirateï¿½s life from the web of fantastic myths which grew up around him.

Lafitte the Pirate

Children's Books

Biographies

Pelican Publishing

The moving story of love in a Cane River community bound by race and class. Famie is a mulatto girl whose ancestors-free blacks-rivaled the white planters in wealth and culture. But on a Louisiana plantation in the 1920s, she is an outcast. An illicit love affair with a white landowner leaves her with a son. She dreams her son will be accepted into white society, but in her struggle to transcend race and class Famie must sacrifice the last links to her past.

Children of Strangers

Long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folktales and customs, this book chronicles the stories and legends that have emerged from the bayou country.

Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales

Tallant, Robert

Dreyer, Edward

This fascinating volume covers Louisiana's history, beginning with the early French and Spanish settlers through slavery and beyond.

Old Louisiana

History

Americas

Louisiana Stories

Hearn, Lafcadio

Cable, George

King, Grace

Father Mississippi

Arkose Press

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Pohl Pr

Lyle Saxon's only novel vividly captures the lives of the Cane River's people of color. Children of Strangers is the powerful and moving novel of love in a community bound by race and class. Famie is a mulatto girl, a half-breed. Her ancestors were free blacks who rivaled the white planters in wealth and culture. But on a Louisiana plantation in the 1920s, Famie is an outcast, rejected by whites because of her black ancestors and unwilling to associate with the sharecroppers who are descendants of slaves.An illicit love affair with a white landowner leaves Famie with a son, Joel, to raise. Her dream is that Joel will someday become accepted into white society. But in her struggle to transcend race and class, Famie must sacrifice the last links to her past.

Children of Strangers (Pelican Pouch)

In these classic, fascinating, and often terrifying tales--Mardi Gras Indians, Baby Dolls, the Zulu King, Loup Garou, and the headless horseman of Natchitoches--all share the stage. Ghost stories from around Louisiana mingle with the true horrors of figures such as the infamous "New Orleans Axeman." Learn stories of the Creoles and Cajuns, Southern church traditions, Voodoo rituals, hexes, and charms. Gumbo Ya-Ya, "everybody talks at once," expresses the tension between refinement and profanity, the sacred and the sensual--which defines Louisiana culture to this day. This 70th Anniversary Pelican Publishing unabridged edition's contents are wholly true to the 1945 original edition. First commissioned as a project of the Works Progress Administration Louisiana Writers' Program, it has stood the test of time and is a book beloved by historians, locals, and visitors.

Gumbo Ya-Ya

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A Lyle Saxon Reader: Lost Stories of the French Quarter and Buried Treasure

Lafitte the Pirate

Children of Strangers

Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales

Old Louisiana

Louisiana Stories

Father Mississippi

Father Mississippi

Children of Strangers (Pelican Pouch)

Gumbo Ya-Ya