The Yellow Wallpaper (American Feminist Literature) (Golden Classics, #51) (Bedford Cultural Editions)

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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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 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...
  • ISBN10 0486298574
  • ISBN13 9780486298573
  • Publish Date 1 February 2000 (first published 1 January 1892)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 80
  • Language English