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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Author), Robert Shulman (Editor) "IT is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (21 May 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192834800
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192834805
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.2 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 116,486 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #4 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > G > Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
    #54 in  Books > Fiction > Short Stories > World > English
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"A very concise, well presented introduction which the reader can profitably enjoy both before and after reading the text itself. Excellent to have an extensive and representative collection n one affordable volume."--Professor Anne LeCroy, East Tennessee State University
"Superb volume! The introduction alone is worth the price of the text."--Professor Nancy Lang, Marshall University
"An excellent sampling of Gilman's stories with a strong Introduction and useful bibliography."--Professor Martha Cutter, Kent State


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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. In addition to her pioneering masterpiece, `The Yellow Wall-Paper' (1890), which draws on her own experience of depression and insanity, this edition features her Impress `story studies', works in the manner of writers such as James, Twain, and Kipling. These stories, together with other fiction from her neglected California period (1890-5), throw new light on Gilman as a practitioner of the art of fiction. In her Forerunner stories she repeatedly explores the situation of `the woman of fifty' and inspires reform by imagining workable solutions to a range of personal and social problems.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting tale, 1 Nov 2007
By kehs (Hertfordshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: "The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift) (Paperback)
This is a disturbing tale about a young woman's treatment by her husband. What we now know as post-natal depression was in those days treated as madness. Her husband has had her confined to a room with yellow patterned wallpaper after she has her first baby. Her only way of expressing her feelings is to write them down, but she has to do so in secret as her husband has forbidden it. She thinks there is a person underneath the wallpaper trying to get out and we can feel the desperation in her writing as she struggles to understand what is happening to her. This has a bone chilling ending which will haunt my mind forever.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting gothic and chilling fable, 23 Jun 2008
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This review is from: "The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift) (Paperback)
This is a spine-tingling (not necessarily in a good way!) long short story with hauntingly gothic imagery that shifts and stirs beneath a prosaic surface.

The female protagonist is confined to her room as a 'rest cure' which might be associated with what we now recognise as post-natal depression, but the enforced 'rest' that is more akin to imprisonment releases something in her psyche that might be madness...

The yellow wallpaper of the title is both a kind of fairy-tale mirror and a window to another world that allows the narrator to see the female figures caught beneath it and living out their lives beneath its shadows, an incredibly haunting and indicting imagery for Victorian England.

This is only short (more a long short story than a novella) but it will stay with you for all that.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Tales of a Lunatic, 25 Jan 2002
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Focusing on The Yellow Wallpaper alone, this novel is wonderful. Our protagonist is a woman stifled by her husband, also a doctor, who doesnt allow her to write and believes her passion for writing has made her mad. He locks her in the highest room in the house with the famous Yellow Wallpaper where most of the story takes place. It is a tale of an incarcerated woman who stays awake by night to see the caged figure in the wallpaper that 'shakes the bars' by moonlight, hence her lunacy.
The book is a large component fir Gilbert and Gubar's 'The Madwoman In The Attic' and frankly, i love it!!
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