The Yellow Wallpaper

Name: The Yellow Wallpaper
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
ISBN: 9798882290015

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrator: Laura Sears

Unabridged: 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Robert Larson

Published: 08/05/2024

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

A woman suffering from postpartum depression is confined to a room by her overbearing physician husband for a "rest cure." Isolated and bored, she becomes increasingly obsessed with the grotesque yellow wallpaper in her room.

About Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American feminist, author, and social critic who wrote several novels, over two hundred short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Gilman spent much of her youth in Providence, Rhode Island, and was frequently in the presence of her father's family, which included Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the famous suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker. From 1909 to 1916, Gilman wrote and edited her own magazine, the Forerunner, in which much of her fiction appeared. Her large body of work, which examines the economic and social position of women in society, includes the semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," the feminist utopian novel Herland, the poetry volume In This World, the nonfiction work Women and Economics, and her posthumously published autobiography, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on September 10, 2023

Well, looky here! Ailing woman narrator takes a break from the city and settles on a rental country house to rest and recover her health after childbirth. Her physician husband taking exhaustive vigilance on her well being. The new accommodations are wonderful, ample space, a beautiful garden, and......more

Goodreads review by emma on February 22, 2024

better late than never. and the extremely unnecessary, redundant, and untimely reviews are in: this one is a classic for a reason!!! this was creepy and well-written and compelling. crazy that i'm extolling the virtues of a short story everyone was required to read at the age of 14 and a half but i wa......more

Goodreads review by Federico on November 18, 2024

Delightful. A collection of short stories by renowned Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She’s good, she’s REALLY good. This may be one of the best collections I’ve ever read. Clearly an exception to the mixed bag rule, nearly all of the stories being good or better, noting “The Good” ones may even feel ex......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on October 18, 2024

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short novella from 1892, which has become a classic of the genre. It is a claustrophobic depiction of what would then be described as a woman's descent into madness, but now sounds more like severe post-natal depression. The story consists of passages from a secret journal,......more