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The House Behind the Cedars

Charles W. Chesnutt - Author

Donald B. Gibson - Introduction by

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ISBN 9780140186857 | 224 pages | 01 Apr 1993 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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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.

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