[Gutenberg 472] • The House Behind the Cedars
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- Authors
- Chesnutt, Charles W.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Tags
- domestic fiction , racially mixed people -- fiction , psychological fiction , passing (identity) -- fiction , classics , racism -- fiction , southern states -- fiction , didactic fiction , african americans -- fiction , african american women -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9780140186857
- Date
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.18 MB
- Lang
- en
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.