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Title

The house behind the cedars / by Charles W. Chesnutt.

Author

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932.

Publication

Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company ; Cambridge, [Mass.] : The Riverside Press, 1900.

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Additional Authors

• Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publisher.
• Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
• H.O. Houghton & Company, electrotyper, printer.

Description

[6], 294, [2] p.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Southern States > History > 1865-1877 > Fiction
• North Carolina > Fiction
• African Americans > Color > Social aspects > Fiction
• Racism > Southern States > Fiction
• Black author
• African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions > Fiction
• Passing (Identity) > Fiction
• African American women > Fiction
• Racially mixed people > Southern States > Fiction

Note

• Publisher's advertisement on p. [2], 1st count.
• "Copyright, 1900, by Charles W. Chesnutt all rights reserved."--verso of title page.
• "The Riverside Press. Electrotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton & Co. Cambridge, Mass. U.S.A."--colophon, p. [2], 3rd count.
• Last page blank.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. A stranger from South Carolina -- ch. 2. An evening visit -- ch. 3. The old judge -- ch. 4. Down the river -- ch. 5. The tournament -- ch. 6. The queen of love and beauty -- ch. 7. 'Mid new surroundings -- ch. 8. The courtship -- ch. 9. Doubts and fears -- ch. 10. The dream -- ch. 11. A letter and a journey -- ch. 12. Tryon goes to Patesville -- ch. 13. An injudicious payment -- ch. 14. A loyal friend -- ch. 15. Mine own people -- ch. 16. The bottom falls out -- ch. 17. Two letters -- ch. 18. Under the old régime -- ch. 19. God made us all -- ch. 20. Digging up roots -- ch. 21. A gilded opportunity -- ch. 22. Imperative business -- ch. 23. The guest of honor -- ch. 24. Swing your partners -- ch. 25. Balance all -- ch. 26. The schoolhouse in the woods -- ch. 27. An interesting acquaintance -- ch. 28. The lost knife -- ch. 29. Plato earns half a dollar -- ch. 30. An unusual honor -- ch. 31. In deep waters -- ch. 32. The power of love -- ch. 33. A mule and a cart.

Call Number

Sc Rare C 82-4

LCCN

00006309

OCLC

• 1477220
• NYPG83-B58889

Author

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932.

Title

The house behind the cedars / by Charles W. Chesnutt.

Imprint

Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company ; Cambridge, [Mass.] : The Riverside Press, 1900.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), Suppl. 393

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900, 1018

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-C (Chestnutt, C. W. House behind the cedars) (accession no. B547500) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publisher.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

H.O. Houghton & Company, electrotyper, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare C 82-4

Sc Rare Fic-C (Chestnutt, C. W. House behind the cedars)

NBO (Chesnutt, C. W. House behind the Cedars)