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The House Behind the Cedars

Charles W. Chesnutt - Author
Donald B. Gibson - Introduction by
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Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 224 pages | ISBN 9780140186857 | 01 Apr 1993 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
The House Behind the Cedars
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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