The House Behind the Cedars,9780820321943

The House Behind the Cedars

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ISBN13: 9780820321943
ISBN10: 082032194X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Georgia Pr
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Summary

The House Behind the Cedars, which many consider Charles Chesnutt's finest novel, tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life. This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African-American writers. As Werner Sollors writes, "William Dean Howells did not overstate his case when he compared Chesnutt's works with those by Turgenev, Maupassant, and James . . . and ÝChesnutt¨ has become one of the most important 'crossover' authors from the African-American tradition."

Author Biography

Charles W. Chesnutt, born in 1858, is generally acknowledged as the first publicly acclaimed African American novelist. Between 1885 and 1905 he published more than fifty tales and essays, two collections of short stories, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and three novels.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
A Stranger From South Carolina
1(13)
An Evening Visit
14(18)
The Old Judge
32(4)
Down The River
36(9)
The Tournament
45(14)
The Queen of Love and Beauty
59(4)
'Mid New Surroundings
63(4)
The Courtship
67(10)
Doubts and Fears
77(11)
The Dream
88(8)
A Letter and A Journey
96(8)
Tryon Goes To Patesville
104(12)
An Injudicious Payment
116(8)
A Loyal Friend
124(8)
Mine Own People
132(10)
The Bottom Falls Out
142(7)
Two Letters
149(6)
Under The Old Regime
155(23)
God Made Us All
178(11)
Digging Up Roots
189(4)
A Gilded Opportunity
193(10)
Imperative Business
203(6)
The Guest of Honor
209(11)
Swing Your Partners
220(8)
Balance All
228(5)
The Schoolhouse in the Woods
233(6)
An Interesting Acquaintance
239(5)
The Lost Knife
244(7)
Plato Earns Half A Dollar
251(9)
An Unusual Honor
260(8)
In Deep Waters
268(9)
The Power of Love
277(5)
A Mule and A Cart
282

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