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Gombo Zhebes

(1885)
A collection of stories by

 
 
Originally published in 1885, Gombo Zhebes is a collection of 352 Creole proverbs selected from 6 dialects. There are 6 in the Creole of French Guyana; 28 in the Creole of Haiti; 51 in the Creole of New Orleans; 101 in the Creole of Martinique; 110 in the Creole of Mauritius and 52 in the Creole of Trinidad. The proverbs are translated into French and into English.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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