Works
- His most important novels are The Grandissimes (1880) and Madame Delphine (1881). Old Creole Days (1879) was a collection of his stories first published in Scribner's, beginning in 1873.
- The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life is a historical romance set in New Orleans shortly after the Louisiana Purchase. The plot follows the adventures and romances of several members of the Grandissime family, a French Creole family with mixed-race members.
- In 1880, the United States Census Bureau commissioned Cable to write a "historical sketch" of pre-Civil War New Orleans for a special section of the 10th United States census' "Social statistics of cities". He submitted a well-researched 313-page history. It was sharply reduced for publication.
- In 1884, the history was published as The Creoles of Louisiana. It was reprinted in paperback in 2000.
- In 2008 a new edition of his history, including footnotes and research, was published by Louisiana State University Press under the title, The New Orleans of George Washington Cable: The 1887 Census Office Report, edited and with an introduction by Lawrence N. Powell.
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