Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331836523
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Excerpt from Tourist's Guide Book to the City of New Orleans The electric light shows the way to the opera, the French market, the cathedral; but out of the thoroughfare is a tiny cafe where the coffee might be bottled and sold for perfume. At the fringe of the town are convents that once were grand plantations, soon to be under the snows of sweet orange The long, narrow, black tunnels Of entrances to houses in French town give on Open courts and pictures of most foreign-looking life. The song birds of the opera live here, the violet vendor has there her beds Of purple bloom, and yonder the praline vendor concocts her rose-leaf conserves or peels pecans for your after-dinner cup of cafe noir. A poet dwells in this big house, and across the way a ghost lives. A king once slept and snored in yonder haunted chamber. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.