Friendship and devotion, or three months in Louisiana / Camille Lebrun ; translated with introduction and annotation by E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lebrun, Camille, 1805-1886, author.

Contributor:

Johnson, E. Joe (Edward Joe), translator.

White, Robin Anita, translator.

Series:

Banner books (Series)

Banner books series

Standardized Title:

Amitié et dévouement, ou trois mois à la Louisiane. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 163 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Three months in Louisiana

Friendship and devotion

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

Summary:

"After a short preface meant to educate young readers about the geography, culture, and history of the southern reaches of the Louisiana Purchase, the novel tells the tale of two teenaged, orphaned Americans, Hortense Melvil and Valentine Arnold. The two young women, who characterize one another as "sisters," have spent the majority of their lives in a Parisian boarding school and return to Louisiana to begin their adult lives. Almost immediately upon arrival in New Orleans, their close friendship faces existential threats: grave illness in the form of yellow fever, the prospect of marriage separating the two, and powerful discrimination in the form of racial prejudice and segregation"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published in 1845 by Pornin as Amitié et dévouement, ou Trois mois à la Louisiane"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Lebrun, Camille, 1805-1886. Friendship and devotion, or Three months in Louisiana.

ISBN:

9781496836380

1496836383

9781496836397

1496836391

OCLC:

1250310929

Publisher Number:

99988467426