Charles Chesnutt Books
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 America...
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The House Behind the Cedars
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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...
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Three Classic African-American Novels
By Charles Chesnutt, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, William W. Brown, William Wells Brown Frances E. W. Harper, Charles W. Chesnutt Edited, With An Introduction By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th...
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The House Behind the Cedars
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....
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