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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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An intense look at society's negligence of postpartum depression and the effects it has on one woman as she descends into madness. ( )
  runaway84 | Aug 11, 2009 |
this was a feminist peice before feminism ever existed. well written, crafty, and enthralling 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is kind of annoying. hear me read it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TYqIu... ( )
  TakeItOrLeaveIt | May 27, 2009 |
Very moving story about a woman who slowly loses her mind because of the way society treats women during the 19th century. ( )
  ahooper04 | Apr 1, 2009 |
A very quick read. The VMC edition I had included an Afterword which was almost as long as the book itself!

I enjoyed this book (short story, or at most a novella). Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an early feminist, it recounts a wife's descent into madness.

The main character is the wife mentioned above; it is told in the first person, and the reader is not entirely convinced of what is real and what is in the narrator's mind.

This was a disturbing book - I felt helpless, like the narrator. A good book. ( )
1 vote LisaMorr | Jan 3, 2009 |
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It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
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This is a short story, do NOT combine with the collection.
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Original publication date1892
Awards and honors1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006 Edition)
First wordsIt is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
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'It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old, foul, bad yellow things...It creeps all over the h... (show all)
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'It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old, foul, bad yellow things...It creeps all over the house.'

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her first child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere, forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, secretly she does what she has to do - she writes. She craves intellectual stimulation, activity, loving understanding, instead she is ordered to her bedroom to rest and 'pull herself together'. Here, slowly but surely, the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind...

First published in 1892, this perfect novel echoes the great stories of Edgar Allen Poe, portraying with chilling power the powerlessness of women within Victorian marriage and the conflicting demands of work, wifehood and motherhood on a woman who longs to be free.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0486298574, Paperback)

Enjoy 7 thought-provoking stories that employ charm and humor to examine relations between the sexes from a feminist perspective. In addition to the title story, an 1892 classic that recounts a woman's descent into madness, this collection includes such masterful stories as "Cottagette," "Turned," "Mr. Peebles' Heart," and more.

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