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[Review of The House Behind the Cedars]

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  • Source Text: Anonymous, "[Review of The House Behind the Cedars]," World's Work 1 (December 1900): 211-212.

THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS. By Charles W. Chesnutt. 294 pp. $1.50 (Houghton, Mifflin.) A dramatic story of the color-line in Southern life. The heroine, an octoroon who "passes for white," almost succeeds, but her failure is one of the most tragic things in recent fiction. A well-constructed and well-written story of great directness and power.

  • Cite (Chicago style): Anonymous, "[Review of The House Behind the Cedars]," The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive, Gen. Ed. Stephanie P. Browner, Matt Cohen, and Kenneth M. Price, accessed April 25, 2024. https://chesnuttarchive.org/item/ccda.rev00177.
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  • Rights information: The base text of the original item is in the public domain. The text encoding and editorial notes were created and/or prepared by the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Any reuse of the material should credit the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive. [License]
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