It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
An edition of The Yellow Wallpaper
(1892)
The yellow wallpaper.
[1st ed.]
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"First published in 1892, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. In the involuntary confinement of her bedroom, the hero creates a reality of her own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper--a pattern that has come to symbolize her own imprisonment. Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, "The Yellow Wallpaper" stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it depicts one woman's descent into insanity, but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of freedom and self-empowerment for women."--Goodreads.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of the 1899 ed. published by Small, Maynard, Boston.
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