{"product_id":"the-mysteries-of-new-orleans-the-longfellow-series-of-american-languages-and-literatures-9780801868825","title":"The Mysteries of New Orleans The Longfellow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncovering the vices of a city that was steeped in sexual promiscuity of every variety and crimes of greed, passion and malice... Reizenstein invests a good many satiric jibes at religion, society and human nature in general. A mixture of naturalistic realism and gothic melodrama, Mysteries of New Orleans really focuses most of its attention on the city of its title. Reizenstein's greatest talent is for minute detail, and, under his scrutiny, very little that goes on in the city escapes his notice... Steven Rowan's astute and clearly written introduction and his very informative notes on each chapter are helpful in understanding the historic context of the book. His translation allows readers a glimpse into a city whose varied and intriguing population has created a potpourri as rich today as it was 150 years ago when Baron von Reizenstein took up residence and took up his pen. -- Mary McCay New Orleans Times-Picayune The essence of New Orleans is invested in a history of vice, vagrancy, and pirate vibes... What is [this] history exactly? In The Mysteries of New Orleans a novel written in the mid-nineteenth century by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, just published by Johns Hopkins University Press, the squalor is more vivid that anything we might mention today. The Baron was just reporting. Andrei Codrescu, NPR's All Things Considered Ethnic American literature has found legitimacy in the classroom, so this novel comes as a welcome surprise... This roman a clef include[s] scandalous depictions of salacious antebellum life amid the European, African, mulatto, and Creole societies that intermingled in the city... The book offers a rare and candid look into a much earlier time. A significant document. Choice 2003 Painstakingly reconstructed... Has... taken its place as a founding text for a city whose open and tolerant atmosphere was no longer any mystery at all. -- Christopher Capozzola Bay Windows 2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSearching for a Key to \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMemoranda for the Sympathetic Reader\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Lucy Wilson\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Masquerade\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Two Sisters\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. A Night After the Honeymoon\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. A Welcome Guest\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Don Juan in Hell\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Parasina Brulard-Hotchkiss\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. An Intermezzo and Further Events at Madame Brulard's\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The Southern Cross\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10.\u003ci\u003e Mantis Religiosa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. The Negro Family\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Sulla\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. The Manuscript\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Jenny and Frida\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Far Away\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. The Assault on Looking-Glass Prairie\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Gretchen in the Bush\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. Unexpected \u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. Searching for a Bride \u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. Lesbian Love\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. Albert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22. One Year Later\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23. Under The Live Oaks\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24. The Coffee Pickers\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25. The Prince of Württemberg \u003cbr\u003eChapter 26. Aunty Celestine\u003cbr\u003eChapter 27. Corybantic Fits\u003cbr\u003eChapter 28. In the Hamburg Mill\u003cbr\u003eChapter 29. Clubmen of the 99th and 100th Degree\u003cbr\u003eChapter 30. Under the Bed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrologue\u003c\/i\u003e: The Fata Morgana of the South\u003cbr\u003eChapter 31. Angel and Genius\u003cbr\u003eChapter 32. On the Flight to Nineveh\u003cbr\u003eChapter 33. Interludes\u003cbr\u003eChapter 34. A Parrot in Cupid's Service\u003cbr\u003eChapter 35. A Letter From the West, or, The Voice of a Friend From Highland\u003cbr\u003eChapter 36. The Confession \u003cbr\u003eChapter 37. Complications and Revelations\u003cbr\u003eChapter 38. 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