The House Behind the Cedars Paperback - 2004
by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
From the jacket flap
The House Behind the Cedars, which many consider Charles Chesnutt's fi nest novel, tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life. This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African-American writers. As Werner Sollors writes, "William Dean Howells did not overstate his case when he compared Chesnutt's works with those by Turgenev, Maupassant, and James . . . and [Chesnutt] has become one of the most important 'crossover' authors from the African-American tradition."
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- Title The House Behind the Cedars
- Author Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 172
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Kessinger Publishing
- Date 2004-06-17
- ISBN 9781419166679 / 1419166670
- Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 9.42 x 7.56 x 0.43 in (23.93 x 19.20 x 1.09 cm)
- Reading level 1220
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Themes
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Identity (Psychology)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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