The House Behind the Cedars - (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Charles W Chesnutt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. <p/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A pioneering work about racial passing."<br>--Werner Sollors, Harvard University<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Judith Jackson Fossett</b>, associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, is the author of <i>Illuminated Darkness: Slavery and Its Shadows in Nineteenth-Century America</i> and the editor of <i>Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century.</i>
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