The Yellow Wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Softcover

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins; Anderson, Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1973968908 ISBN 13: 9781973968900

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The Yellow Wallpaper is the 1892 short story by the classic American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is one of the most notable modern feminist literary works. The story is told in first person as journal entries by a woman whose physician husband forbids her to work because of her "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency." The story culminates with the chronical of her descent into psychosis caused by the deeds of her husband and the revelation about postpartum. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great influence on modern feminism because of her view on utopian feminism and unorthodox lifestyle views. Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

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About the Author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.

From AudioFile

In 1892 an unnamed woman passes the slow days of summer writing down her innermost thoughts while convalescing. Her observations focus on the strange effects of the peeling, fading, yellow wallpaper in her bedroom. The Spencer Library has created a unique audio experience in this chilling tale with profound psychological and moral implications. Claudette Sutherland gives a remarkable performance. Her subtly expressive voice is so skillfully recorded that her soft intakes of breath have a desperate life of their own. The haunting beauty of Carol Nethen's original score can momentarily distract, but it supports more than it interferes, a tribute both to the composer and to the excellence of the recording standards. The listener is rewarded with a fully realized dramatic performance with a strong musical presence. C.T. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1973968908
• ISBN 13: 9781973968900
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 24