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The House Behind the Cedars
An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt's story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...
The House Behind the Cedars
Charles W. Chesnutt was a prominent African-American writer, lawyer, and political activist. Chesnutt was a prolific author and his books were notable for exploring the racial and social issues in the American South after the Civil War.The House Behind the Cedars, published in...
The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars
Charles Chesnutt's classic novel, hailed by Werner Sollors as "a pioneering work of racial passing."
Edited and featuring an introduction and notes from Judith Jackson Fossett. A riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race...
The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars (1900) is African-American writer Charles Chesnutt's debut novel. Inspired by his own experience as a Black man capable of passing for white--which Chesnutt consciously chose not to do--as well as by Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, The...
The House Behind the Cedars
Charles Chesnutt was perhaps the most influential African-American fiction writer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The House Behind the Cedars, his dramatic masterpiece, was crafted during the tumultuous post-Civil War era in the South, when many...
The House Behind the Cedars
Time touches all things with destroying hand; and if he seem now and then to bestow the bloom of youth, the sap of spring, it is but a brief mockery, to be surely and swiftly followed by the wrinkles of old age, the dry leaves and bare branches of winter. And yet there are places...
The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars (1900) is African-American writer Charles Chesnutt's debut novel. Inspired by his own experience as a Black man capable of passing for white-which Chesnutt consciously chose not to do-as well as by Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, The...
The House Behind the Cedars
In The House Behind the Cedars, a novel about two African Americans who pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina, Charles W. Chesnutt introduces a striking new hero in American fiction of the color line: John Walden, a young black man who decides to pass for...
The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars: Unabridged Edition
The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars: in large print
The House Behind the Cedars: in large print
The House Behind the Cedars(1900) novel, by Cha...
An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt's story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...
The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars (1900) by. Charles ...
The House Behind Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars
In "The House Behind the Cedars" by Charles W. Chesnutt, readers are immersed in a compelling narrative set against the backdrop of the Reconstruction era in the American South. Chesnutt, a pioneering figure in African American literature, delves deep into themes of racial identity,...
The House Behind the Cedars
The House of a Thousand Candles is a famous work by Meredith Nicholson. Nicholson lived and traveled extensively in Indiana and it was a rich resource for his writing. The House of a Thousand Candles provides readers with the view of an outsider coming to Indiana. The book begins:...
The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars
Charles W. Chesnutt's "The House Behind the Cedars" explores themes of racial identity and passing in the post-Reconstruction South. Set in North Carolina, this literary work delves into the complexities faced by racially mixed people navigating a society grappling with the...
The House Behind the Cedars
Charles W. Chesnutt's "The House Behind the Cedars" explores themes of racial identity and passing in the post-Reconstruction South. Set in North Carolina, this literary work delves into the complexities faced by racially mixed people navigating a society grappling with the...
The House Behind The Cedars
The House Behind The Cedars, written by legendary author Charles W. Chesnutt is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The House Behind The Cedars is required reading for...
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