Either evocative of an early era, or a period piece. This book written in the 1950s is warmly nostalgic for the times of that generations grandparents - back in the 1850s-1860s. If you like to read tales of the wealthy in that generation, and the unpleasant life of those ever since that happy time ended, this book will be fun. At the time it was written, it was intended to be a tour guide to antebellum mansions still standing throughout Georgia.