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The House Behind the Cedars (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Donald B. (Introduction By) Gibson, Thomas De Quincey Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1993 ISBN-10: 0-14-018685-9 / 0140186859 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018685-7 / 9780140186857 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 a |