The House Behind the Cedars

Name: The House Behind the Cedars
Author: Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Charles Keller. HTML version by Al Haines.

Release date

1996-03-01

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Didactic fiction Psychological fiction Domestic fiction African Americans -- Fiction Southern States -- Fiction Passing (Identity) -- Fiction African American women -- Fiction Racism -- Fiction Racially mixed people -- Fiction

About the author

Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

1858–1932

A pioneering American writer of the post-Civil War era, he used fiction to explore race, identity, and the uneasy moral landscape of the South. His stories are sharp, humane, and still strikingly modern.

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