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New Orleans has served as the backdrop for a number of films with iconic turns in films such as Gone With the Wind (1939), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Little New Orleans Girl (1956), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Live and Let Die (1973), Little New Orleans Girl (1978), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Little New Orleans Girl (2004), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and The ...
Coming Through Slaughter is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. The novel is a fictionalized version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and is partly set in Slaughter, Louisiana. It covers the last months of Bolden's sanity in ...
The Benjamin January mysteries is a series of historical murder mystery novels by Barbara Hambly.The series is named after the main character of the books. The Benjamin January mysteries are set in and around New Orleans during the 1830s and 1840s, and focus primarily on the free black community which existed at that time and place.
Pages in category "Novels set in New Orleans" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Addie Pray;
The best historical novels of 2024 do all this and more, covering many millennia as they take us from ancient Greece to Shakespearean London to Cold War Europe. How are we classifying a period piece?
Novels set in New Orleans (57 P) Pages in category "Novels set in Louisiana" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
The novel takes place in the 1840s, at which time there was a large population of free people of color living in New Orleans. The story centers on Marcel, a young man who has one white parent and one parent who is half white and half black.
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is featured in the historical novel Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen.As depicted in the novel, the "blacksmith shop" was mainly a cover for maintaining a gang of exceptionally tall and strong black slaves – who were ostensibly engaged in shoeing horses while being used by the Lafitte brothers for intimidation, extortion and other criminal activities in and around New ...