How long does it take to read The House Behind the Cedars?
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt takes about 4 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours
A weekend read
First published 1900. 218 pages, about 59,950 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 105 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The House Behind the Cedars tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life. This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African-American writers."--Jacket.
Subjects: Fiction, Passing (Identity), African American women, Racially mixed people, Racism, African Americans
