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The House Behind the Cedars

Charles W. Chesnutt Donald B. Gibson

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English
Penguin Books Ltd
01 April 1993
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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.
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Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   181g
ISBN:   9780140186857
ISBN 10:   0140186859
Pages:   224
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Judith Jackson Fossett, associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, is the author of Illuminated Darkness- Slavery and Its Shadows in Nineteenth-Century America and the editor of Race Consciousness- African-American Studies for the New Century.

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A pioneering work about racial passing. --Werner Sollors, Harvard University


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