# The House Behind the Cedars

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- Book: [The House Behind the Cedars](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-chesnutt/the-house-behind-the-cedars) ([The House Behind the Cedars.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-chesnutt/the-house-behind-the-cedars.md))
- Authors: [Charles Chesnutt](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-chesnutt), [Judith Jackson Fossett](https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-jackson-fossett), [Donald B. Gibson](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-b-gibson)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4018-685-7
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1993-04-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...