The House Behind the Cedars: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles Waddell Chesnutt: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 33 original MP3 tracks, 7:29:56 running time and a link to listen.
The House Behind the Cedars, credited to Charles Waddell Chesnutt, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The House Behind the Cedars by Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Read in English by James K. White 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)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The House Behind the Cedars
- Author credits: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 33
- Listed recording duration: 7:29:56
Catalogue topics
- african-american
- race
- passing
- reconstruction
- miscegenation
Opening tracks: first 24 of 33
- 01 - A Stranger From South Carolina — 20:26
- 02 - An Evening Visit — 28:10
- 03 - The Old Judge — 5:21
- 04 - Down The River — 13:31
- 05 - The Tournament — 20:02
- 06 - The Queen of Love and Beauty — 6:08
- 07 - 'Mid New Surroundings — 6:25
- 08 - The Courtship — 15:30
- 09 - Doubts And Fears — 16:40
- 10 - The Dream — 12:17
- 11 - A Letter and A Journey — 11:53
- 12 - Tryon Goes To Patesville — 17:59
- 13 - An Injudicious Payment — 11:56
- 14 - A Loyal Friend — 11:45
- 15 - Mine Own People — 14:11
- 16 - The Bottom Falls Out — 11:01
- 17 - Two Letters — 7:55
- 18 - Under The Old Regime — 35:32
- 19 - God Made Us All — 18:37
- 20 - Digging Up Roots — 6:35
- 21 - A Gilded Opportunity — 15:38
- 22 - Imperative Business — 9:14
- 23 - The Guest of Honor — 16:56
- 24 - Swing Your Partners — 12:40
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