The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt

The House Behind the Cedars

Charles W. Chesnutt

195 pages first pub 1900 (editions) user-added

fiction classics historical challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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