The Yellow Wallpaper
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- 100+
- First published
- 1892
- Pages
- 29
About this book
Confined to an upstairs room for a 'rest cure' after childbirth, a young woman forbidden to work or write becomes obsessed with the sickly yellow wallpaper around her, convinced a figure is trapped and creeping behind its pattern. Told through her secret journal, the story charts her chilling descent as enforced idleness and her husband's condescension drive her toward madness. A devastating critique of the way nineteenth-century medicine and marriage silenced women, it is both a masterful psychological horror story and a landmark of feminist literature. Brief, unforgettable, and profoundly disturbing, it has lost none of its power.
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Book facts
- Author
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- First published
- 1892
- Reading time
- About 30 minutes
- Pages
- 29
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online