Publisher's Synopsis
""Bylow Hill"" is a novel written by George W. Cable. It is set in the late 19th century in New Orleans and follows the story of a young man named Maurice Mainwaring. Maurice is a wealthy and privileged young man who is engaged to a beautiful and wealthy woman named Alice Bylow. However, Maurice's life is turned upside down when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful and mysterious woman named Delphine. Delphine is a Creole woman who comes from a different social class than Maurice and Alice, and their relationship is met with disapproval from both their families and society. As Maurice struggles to choose between his love for Delphine and his duty to his family and fianc�����e, he must navigate the complex social and racial dynamics of New Orleans. The novel explores themes of love, duty, social class, and race, and provides a vivid depiction of life in New Orleans during the late 19th century.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.