And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
-- George Washington Cable
   
George Washington Cable   Name:
George Washington Cable
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
American
Birth:
October 12, 1844
Death:
January 31, 1925
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