House Behind the Cedars

(0 User reviews) 119

By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Literary Fiction, Published 1900 onward

Authors: Charles Waddell Chesnutt In Year : 1900

Book Language: English

Audiobook: House Behind the Cedars

A Stranger From South Carolina
An Evening Visit
The Old Judge
Down The River
The Tournament
The Queen of Love and Beauty
'Mid New Surroundings
The Courtship
Doubts And Fears
The Dream
A Letter and A Journey
Tryon Goes To Patesville
An Injudicious Payment
A Loyal Friend
Mine Own People
The Bottom Falls Out
Two Letters
Under The Old Regime
God Made Us All
Digging Up Roots
A Gilded Opportunity
Imperative Business
The Guest of Honor
Swing Your Partners
Balance All
The Schoolhouse In The Woods
An Interesting Acquaintance
The Lost Knife
Plato Earns Half A Dollar
An Unusual Honor
In Deep Waters
The Power of Love
A Mule And A Cart

In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history. And through his use of the vernacular prevalent in the South of that time, Chesnutt lent a compassionate voice to a group that America did not want to hear. More broadly, however, Chesnutt illustrated, in this character play, the vast and perhaps insurmountable debt this country continues to pay for the sins of slavery. (Summary by James K. White)