The House Behind the Cedars (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

Chesnutt, Charles; Gibson, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140186859 ISBN 13: 9780140186857

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 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 1,700 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.

Review:

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

About the Author:

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.

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140186859
• ISBN 13: 9780140186857
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224