The Yellow Wall-Paper
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.'Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). Gilman's work is available in Penguin Classics in The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland and Selected Writings.
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Author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pages
64
Publisher
Penguin UK
Published Date
2015-02-26
ISBN
0141397438 9780141397436
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"An incredible short story of a women slowly going insane because as “medical treatment” she is forced to stare at yellow wallpaper. <br/><br/>It is also partly based on personal experience because the author went through the treatment and then wrote a short story on it. It was this story that made them stop doing this."
Niffty
"It was nice, I liked the fact that it immersed me into her head very well, the subtle signs of her going slowly deeper and deeper into insanity. I'm just a little underwhelmed. I understand that this is a short story, but I feel like the story that she told perhaps wasn't built for this short of a story. I think the story being longer would have done a better service to the overall book, and I think I would be able to rate it higher. There wasn't any sort of conclusion, any sort of answers, I felt like this was simply a setup to a larger story. But it was a nice short read, for what it's worth."
Imama Hussain
"Too creepy."
Eliana Checo Genao
"Disturbing journal entries follow a woman’s descent into madness. Feelings of helplessness trying to find meaning, patterns, order when faced with great tragedy/chaos."
Matt Chinworth