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100% of publisher profits will be donated to French Quarter preservation groups
Revisit the timeless mystery, magic, and majesty of the French Quarter and its legendary gardens with this lush collection of photographs. An emotional narrative about the heart and soul of New Orleans and the city’s ability to triumph over sorrow accompanies hundreds of pictures taken before and after the life- and landscape-altering Hurricane Katrina; a special section presents the classic work The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré, which offers mesmerizing images of the verdant gardens concealed behind brick walls and iron gates in the Quarter. The importance of fundraising for and conscientious rebuilding of New Orleans is stressed throughout the book, making this a gorgeous book—with a purpose.
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Will prove to be of immense interest .......2007-05-08
No ordinary coffee table photography book, "Orleans Embrace With The Secret Gardens Of The Vieux Carre" is a 388-page memoir of the New Orleans French Quarter featuring 49 historic black-and-white photographs and 320 full color illustrations. While the overall book draws from the previous work of Roy F. Guste, Jr., the photographs by Louis Sahuc are bonded with a personal and compelling narrative text by T. J. Fisher. Readers will encounter a work originally intended to be of local interest, but in a post-Katrina world, has emerged with universal attraction as a memorial and a motivation to restore a once great American city to its unique and original glory. Enthusiastically recommended, "Orleans Embrace With The Secret Gardens Of The Vieux Carre" will prove to be of immense interest to several categories of readership including: gardening enthusiasts, historians, architects, photographers, and anyone who has every walked along the avenues and admired the parks, gardens, and buildings of the New Orleans French Quarter.
Special Book to Treasure.......2007-04-23
WOW...what a big beautiful book! For anyone who has a connection to New Orleans...buy it...give it...treasure it...well written, throughly researched, amazing photos and layout...sure to be an award winner! Thanks for putting your heart into this volume!
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?.......2007-04-03
Read this book. Highly recommended.
AMAZING BOOK!.......2007-04-02
This is a great book: it is a passionate "love song" dedicated to New Orleans. The photos and text will tug at your heartstrings.
Heartfelt Tribute .......2007-03-29
What a great book! Far more than just a pretty "coffee table" title!
Visually gorgeous, the narrative is equally powerful - you'll be transported into New Orleans past as well as learn why this city deserves a place in our future. The author's love is evident with every turn of the page.
I plan to get several as gifts. My friends will be delighted and I'll be helping this deserving community since the publisher is donating profits to preservation efforts.
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Home to the notorious “Blue Book,” which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans’s infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of the United States, and sported one of the most violent records of street crime in the country. In The French Quarter, Herbert Asbury, author of The Gangs of New York, chronicles this rather immense underbelly of “The Big Easy.” From the murderous exploits of Mary Jane “Bricktop” Jackson and Bridget Fury, two prostitutes who became famous after murdering a number of their associates, to the faux-revolutionary “filibusters” who, backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars of public support—though without official governmental approval—undertook military missions to take over the bordering Spanish regions in Texas, the French Quarter had it all. Once again, Asbury takes the reader on an intriguing, photograph-filled journey through a unique version of the American underworld.
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Dark Sides of the Big Easy.......2006-02-26
Historically based light narrative-style book. An entertaining read before, during, or after your visit to the Big Easy! This book can be read in parts, but the intriguing bits will make you want to hunt down the haunts of the historical smarmy side of New Orleans.
This book needs revision.......2005-08-10
This book was written so long ago, but has been re-released with a new cover. It contains racist terms and old fashioned dialog. I wished I had been more aware and had bought a more updated history of New Orleans.
Wonderful-With Caveats.......2004-03-24
This book stops at 1917 with the closing of Storyville, and was first published in 1938. If at all possible, buy a good original printing. The trade paperback now out has poor, small reproductions of the original illustrations. This is a wonderful, engaging, laugh-out-loud book to be read time and time again. However, it has some factual errors. Asbury implies that Storyville was in the French Quarter-it was not. He also repeats verbatim some "legends" that were invented long after the fact. If you want a correct history of Storyville, see Al Rose's book.
N'awlins rough.......2004-01-07
THE FRENCH QUARTER is a history of crime, vice, and general rascality in New Orleans from its founding in 1718 by the French to the abolition of the Storyville red-light district in 1917.
In fifteen chapters, author Herbert Asbury describes the disruptive roles played by keelboat ruffians, revolutionists, gamblers, duelists, prostitutes, corrupt cops and politicians, pirates, filibusters (soldiers of fortune), vigilantes, pickpockets, muggers, thugs, the Mafia, and voodoo practitioners in the lives of the otherwise law-abiding citizenry. Anyone reading Asbury's narrative might be led to believe that good folks were a miniscule minority.
THE FRENCH QUARTER suffers from being published almost seventy years ago. Aside from a number of old sketch reproductions, and several badly reproduced B&W photographs of bordello interiors and exteriors during the Storyville era, THE FRENCH QUARTER is sadly lacking in illustration. There's not even a map of the city from which to get one's bearings.
This work is wonderfully informative as far as it goes, perhaps occasionally more so than is needed to make the point that the city, especially in the mid-1800s, could be a noxious place. The narrative is sober and straightforward, only occasionally displaying dry humor. A couple examples from the text will suffice to give one a sense of the book's tone and the city's iniquity.
Regarding barrel-houses,the lowest form of drinking place: "The owner of one such establishment not only doped all of his liquor, but maintained his own staff of sneak thieves ... (who) worked on a percentage basis and took turns robbing the sodden wretches who were dragged from the barrel-house."
Regarding the streetwalkers of the Dauphine and Burgundy Street vice area after the Civil War:
" ... the perambulating bawds flung a piece of old carpet on the sidewalk and entertained their customers in full view of passers-by and the prostitutes in the houses ... (who) kept pails of hot water handy to discourage use of the doorsteps." Hmm, I would have thought ice water more effective at shrinking amorous ardor.
Decades after THE FRENCH QUARTER appeared, N'awlins is a model of purity. Why, would you believe me if I said you can't even spit on the street?
I Loved This Book.......2003-07-20
I am so happy this book is being reprinted! I had a copy some years back and howled with laughter at the antics of some the the Quarter's historic gangs, crooks, and ne'er-do-wells. If you are planning your first trip to New Orlean's, this book is a must read, or if you just want to sit back and have a good time and be tickled by some truly amazing characters (like Bricktop) and their pecadillos, buy this book.
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pure pleasure.......2006-06-03
I brought a copy of this book a few years ago and have enjoyed many hours of quiet contemplation. I am transported to the Vieux Carre in an instant. Layers upon layers of visual details are revealed to you. The secrets of this hidden world are yours to uncover over and over again.
This is a magical book that needs to be re-issued.......1999-09-21
I bought this book some years ago and use it as a vacation-in-an-easychair escape to New Orleans. It is a treasure, written by a New Orleans insider who had access to the most wonderful gardens. I hope that it will be reprinted soon, so that I can buy it and send it to a dear friend I was telling about it.
I should have goten it when I could have........1997-06-13
I was in New Orleans recently and fell in love with the courtyard gardens that were hidden away
beyond thick stone and brick walls. You could see these beautiful green, quiet oasis in contrast to
the loud and sometimes bawdiness of the streets
of the French Quarter, behind wrought iron fences,
tucked away, for just a few to see and enjoy.
I went to several bookstores in New Orleans,
asking if there was a book on courtyard gardens
of the French Quarter. I finally found one, The
Secret Garden of the Vieux Carre. It was a beautiful book, with photographs that depicted the
character of the gardens in a way that words could
not.
It was large and heavy and I did not have any room in my bags for another purchase. I thought,
no problem, when I return home to California, I
will find the book or order it.
It is out of print! This could be worth a
return trip to New Orleans in the very near future.
I highly recommended this book.
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THE OLD SQUARE.......2006-11-01
This book is full of fantastic old black and white images and thoroughly interesting text. The French Quarter is one of America's treasures and anyone with any interest at all in this famous old district should have this book in their collection. Thank God, the Quarter is on high ground and the buildings so well built, God willing, it will survive another milinium, much like the city it inhabits.
French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide to New Orleans.......2000-01-05
As a part-time resident of the Vieux Carre, and one who very reluctantly leaves to return to New York, I keep this book in my New York home to look through when I long for New Orleans. This book, with its elegant balck and white historic photos and its vivid descriptive text, captures the best of the Vieux Carre. In fact, I have had great fun trying to match the historic photos to the contemporary Vieux Carre sites on my visits to the Quarter.
I love this book, it's a wonderful gift to anyone who loves that amazing and magical place known as the Vieux Carre.
A must for preservationists and architectural historians.......1998-03-19
Tender in prose, painstaking in research, passionate in creation. A worthy addition to any architectural library.
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Branching across every genre, from mystery and romance to flash fiction and prose poetry, this anthology features the best works by living writers on the heart of New Orleans, with one previously unpublished by Tennessee Williams. Features Ellen Gilchrist, Richard Ford, Robert Olen Butler, Andrei Codrescu, Barry Gifford, Poppy Z. Brite, Julie Smith, John Biguenet, Nancy Lemann, and Valerie Martin, among others. The characters in these works find themselves everywhere from Sarajevo on the eve of the First World War to Algiers Point just across the Mississippi River, but their stories are all anchored in the French Quarter. They wander from the 18th-century New World to a rooftop view of Bourbon Street on the cusp of the third millennium. Interspersed with the history of the city, these stories penetrate the standard cliches and reflect the true sense of the French Quarter-its sensuality, mystery, the life behind its walls-and lift the veils of privacy altogether. Whether surrealism or satire, these exceptional stories are beautiful, poignant, tragic, and comic.
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Stronger than Katrina.......2006-10-20
The array of writing styles, perspectives, insights, and entertainment make this book an absolute treasure. As an outsider looking into the ghostly history of the Crescent City, research for my book could take me only so far. Joshua Clark gathered up so much that is mystical, ethereal, and nearly transparent that would otherwise escape the notice of those of us who have limited time in New Orleans. In the aftermath of Katrina, this book becomes a greater treasure, enlivening the fadding echoes of the old neighborhoods, bars, back streets, and the lives of people we would otherwise never encounter.
A Wonder of Delights........2004-01-03
Reading this book is like savoring a box of very expensive chocolates. Each story is its own wonderous delight. Much like a Whitman's Sampler, there is something here for everyone. Up and coming writers like John Verlenden and Joe Longo more than hold their own alongside the great ones...and, no doubt, will join them one day soon. A perfect bedside companion...timeless and compelling.
Brilliant and inspiring.......2003-12-30
I've never even been to New Orleans and yet love this
anthology. These are astounding stories, plain and
simple. And will leave you with a better sense of that
famous neighborhood than if you'd spent every Mardi
Gras there for the last 20 years.
A Real Treasure.......2003-12-29
Tenessee Williams' previously unpublished piece, a thing of incomparable beauty, is the most harrowing autobiographical account I have ever read of him, providing unparalleled insight to his soul. Ellen Gilchrist's piece is joyful as an angel's whisper. This collection is one one to be savored time and again.
Like a circumabulation of the Vieux Carre.......2003-04-16
As an expatriate Quarterite of beau coup years duration, living there from 1964 through 1985, I found this delightful compilation to be a bit like taking a stroll through the old neighborhood. The characters spring to life fully formed in their unforgetable settings, recreating a palpable experience of all the yats and dawlins who make life in the Crescent City almost tolerable...
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Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938-39 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly intact. The drama takes it form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants or his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carré: the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire; Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New York making at last grab at pleasure with Tye, the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker; two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret; and the dying painter Nightingale, who tries to teach the young writer something about love—both of the body and of the heart. This is a play about the education of the artist, and education in loneliness and despair, in giving and not giving, but most of all in seeing, hearing, feeling, and learning that "writers are shameless spies," who pay dearly for their knowledge and who cannot forget.
Building on two decades of Williams scholarship since Vieux Carré was originally published, Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, has provided a new introduction for this edition, giving the most authoritative account yet of its background and genesis.
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A Wonderful Later Play.......2001-04-04
*Vieux Carre* is probably the finest play of Williams' "Late" period--and it's terrific, though unfairly neglected. It's much more like the earlier work in terms of a "straight" narrative, and as good as it is I think we'll be seeing many more productions of it in the future.
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For more than forty years, world-renowned artist Alan Flattmann has used pastels to capture the unique architecture and the changing scene in New Orleans_ most historic neighborhood. In this, the first published collection of his work, over 120 color images portray landmarks like the French Market, St. Louis Cathedral, and Galatoire_s Restaurant.
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New Orleans Premier Pastel Artist.......2002-10-19
Alan Flattmann is THE New Orleans French Quarter artist. This incredible city has influenced countless artists, and for good reason -- many people say that this old neighborhood is more European than many European cities. The incredible scope of the work is impressive. There is a major painting (oil or pastel) on almost every page. Jazz bands, Mardi Gras revelers, historic store fronts, wrought iron railings, and beautiful architecture - it is all here.
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- An engaging and highly entertaining work of period fiction
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Mardi Gras Madness: Tales of Terror and Mayhem in New Orleans
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A novel in the grand tradition of Michener, Return to Mardi Gras tells everything about Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Some novels contain a chapter about Mardi Gras, always set in the French Quarter. In Return to Mardi Gras half of the novel is set at Mardi Gras, and not only describes Mardi Gras in the French Quarter, but also describes how Mardi Gras is celebrated across New Orleans by the locals. It describes the family nature of Mardi Gras for the locals, and the neighborhood parties along the parade route and across New Orleans.
Return to Mardi Gras is an exciting novel for anyone who has wondered what Mardi Gras in New Orleans is really like. It is a love story and the story of life in the French Quarter, and contains a day by day description of Mardi Gras including the festivities and parties in the French Quarter, Mardi Gras by the locals in the elegant Garden District and the suburbs, the parades, Mardi Gras Balls, Cajun Mardi Gras, street entertainers, and the history of New Orleans, the French Creoles and the Cajuns.
Jim, a 30-year-old attorney in New Orleans has an affair with a strikingly beautiful 22 year old court reporter named Aimee who lives in the French Quarter. He leaves his wife and young son and moves to the French Quarter, and much of the novel describes life in the quaint historic French Quarter. They party in the French Quarter with Craig, a doctor doing his residency in New Orleans who is a playboy; George, an attorney who practices law from his apartment in the French Quarter and stays one step ahead of the Bar Association Grievance Committee; Faye, a single mother living in the French Quarter who is trying to grab all the pleasure out of life she can while she waits for the man of her dreams; and Bill, an attorney from a wealthy family who has trouble holding a hold a job because of his hostility toward authority figures. Together they party in the French Quarter waiting for Mardi Gras because it will somehow give meaning to their lost lives. When Mardi Gras arrives the! things that have been building up all year come to a head.
During Mardi Gras Jim re-establishes a relationship with his three-year-old son while taking him to Mardi Gras parades, Mardi Gras parties, and to see the troubadour street entertainers; jugglers, clowns, musicians, acrobats, pantomines and others in the French Quarter, and has to decide which is the life for him, the carefree hedonistic life of the French Quarter or the family life in the suburbs.
Return to Mardi Gras is also a philosophical novel, and contains symbolism comparing life in the French Quarter with the Odyssey, as well as other symbolism. The most unique and interesting aspect of Return to Mardi Gras is that it paints a true picture of what Mardi Gras is like for New Orleans locals. Whereas other novels might have a brief chapter about the wild Mardi Gras in the French Quarter, this novel also describes Mardi Gras as the locals enjoy it, a family Mardi Gras with parades geared to children and neighborhood parties with friends and family. It is a complete picture of the real Mardi Gras as enjoyed by families in the suburbs and all across New Orleans and southern Louisiana.
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Excellent Description of Mardi Gras.......2003-02-17
I enjoyed Return to Mardi Gras. I think it does a very good job of telling everything about Mardi Gras. It not only tells about Mardi Gras in the French Quarter, which is what everyone sees on television. It also tells how it is celebrated in the neighborhood by the local people, which is very family oriented. It also does a good job of describing the quaint French Quarter scenery, as well as telling the history of New Orleans.
I live in New Orleans, and whenever people from out of town ask me what Mardi Gras is like, I give them a copy of Return to Mardi Gras, since it describes Mardi Gras far better than I can, and they see a true picture of Mardi Gras.
It is an interesting story about the romance between a conservative attorney and his young uninhibited mistress who lives in the French Quarter, when he moves in with her. It is amusing how they try to work out their different lifestyles, against the backdrop of the French Quarter and Mardi Gras.
I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to find out what Mardi Gras is really like.
An engaging and highly entertaining work of period fiction.......2001-08-09
Jim is a 30 year old attorney in New Orleans who is having an affair with a beautiful 22 year old court reporter living in the French Quarter and named Aime. Jim leaves his wife and son and moves in with his mistress. A conservative attorney, Jim tires to accommodate and accept Aime's totally uninhibited free spirit driven lifestyle. All this against the detailed background of Mardi Gras of the 1970s. An engaging and highly entertaining work of period fiction, Return To Mardi Gras is Richard Sherman's debut novel and marks him as a significant literary talent to be looked for in the future!
Nostalgia for New Orleans.......2001-06-22
I thought Return to Mardi Gras was a very good book. I was in New Orleans and went into a book store in the French Quarter and asked if there was a good novel about New Orleans, and they recommended this one. They said it had the history of New Orleans and told everything about Mardi Gras. I started reading it on the airplane going home to Chicago and I wish I had read it before I went to New Orleans or while I was there. It would have made the trip more fun. It not only tells the history of New Orleans but also discusses several things in the French Quarter--restaurants, bars, old historic buildings, traditional New Orleans dishes and drinks, and many other things. I finished reading it after I was home and it made me miss New Orleans. I enjoyed the story too about someone who lives with his girl friend in the French Quarter and during Mardi Gras sees some of Mardi Gras with her and also takes his young son to see Mardi Gras Parades and other Mardi Gras things, and has to decide between them. I won't give away the ending.
Good Book about New Orleans.......2001-05-11
I thoroughly enjoyed Return to Mardi Gras. A friend read it and passed it along to me and I thought it was very good and passed it to another friend. What I really liked about the novel is that it puts you in touch with New Orleans and New Orleans history. It is set in the French Quarter and the writing is so vivid you feel like you are walking throught the French Quarter. There are several chapters about New Orleans history which is fascinating, as well as the history of the Cajuns and Mardi Gras. 200 pages of the novel are set at Mardi Gras and it tells everything about Mardi Gras; the parties, parades and balls and made me want to go to Mardi Gras. The story is about a conservative attorney who moves in with a girl who lives in the French Quarter and is a free spirit, and about how they try to reconcile their differences. I enjoyed her character development and she is quite an unforgettable character. The ending was a surprise and I stayed up late to see how it came out. I would recommend the novel to anyone who is interested in New Orleans or Mardi Gras.
It's not just about Mardi Gras.......2001-03-09
I was expecting a good novel about Mardi Gras. It took about half the book before the parades even started. It's an interesting story, but if you're expecting the plot to be centered around Carnival in New Orleans exclusively you might be disappointed. The book was hard to read because the editing was really bad. Being a Louisiana native, I noticed several misspellings of New Orleans' places and in more than a few instances sentences just don't make sense. That was the biggest disappointment - that a book would get out with these kinds of mistakes.
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Asconius: Commentaries on Five Speeches of Cicero
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Students and scholars of Latin, history, and literature will find this to be an outstanding book that offers insights into the lives of Cicero and Asconius, as well as a fascinating look at Rome in the first century BCE. Commentaries by Asconius are included with the text and translation of these speeches by Cicero: In Pisonem, Pro Scauro, Pro Milone, Pro Cornelio, and In Toga Candida. The book also features an essay on the life and works of Asconius, notes on sources, bibliography, catalog of Asconius' errors, glossary, and proper name index.
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