Fiction · 1900
The House Behind the Cedars
Rena Walden, light-skinned enough to pass as white, leaves her Black family and community behind at her brother John's urging to seek a new life and a white husband, George Tryon — until Tryon discovers her ancestry and the engagement collapses, sending Rena back toward the world, and the man, she had left behind.
Charles W. Chesnutt, one of the first African American writers to achieve major literary recognition, published the novel in 1900 through Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
Bibliomancer restores the 1900 text exactly as Chesnutt wrote it.
Contents
- I — A Stranger from South Carolina
- II — An Evening Visit
- III — The Old Judge
- IV — Down the River
- V — The Tournament
- VI — The Queen of Love and Beauty
- VII — ‘Mid New Surroundings
- VIII — The Courtship
- IX — Doubts and Fears
- X — The Dream
- XI — A Letter and a Journey
- XII — Tryon Goes to Patesville
- XIII — An Injudicious Payment
- XIV — A Loyal Friend
- XV — Mine Own People
- XVI — The Bottom Falls Out
- XVII — Two Letters
- XVIII — Under the Old Regime
- XIX — God Made Us All
- XX — Digging Up Roots
- XXI — A Gilded Opportunity
- XXII — Imperative Business
- XXIII — The Guest of Honor
- XXIV — Swing Your Partners
- XXV — Balance All
- XXVI — The Schoolhouse in the Woods
- XXVII — An Interesting Acquaintance
- XXVIII — The Lost Knife
- XXIX — Plato Earns Half a Dollar
- XXX — An Unusual Honor
- XXXI — In Deep Waters
- XXXII — The Power of Love
- XXXIII — A Mule and a Cart
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