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...
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...
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...
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 (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...
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 (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, 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...
The House Behind the Cedars is the first novel by American author Charles W. Chesnutt. It was published in 1900 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The story occurs in the southern American states of North and South Carolina a few years following the American Civil War. Rena Walden,...
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt. The House Behind the Cedars is the first novel by American author Charles W. Chesnutt. It was published in 1900 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The story occurs in the southern American states of North and South Carolina a...
The House Behind The Cedars is a novel written by Charles W. Chesnutt, published in 1900. The story is set in the American South during the late 19th century and explores themes of race, identity, and social class.The novel follows the story of John and Rena Walden, two siblings...
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