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by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Injoy's Blogs + Book Reviews
Injoy's Blogs + Book Reviews rated it 5 years ago
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story written by a woman who had a psychotic break from having absolutely nothing to do in life. I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave it four stars. "Thi...
Dem
Dem rated it 5 years ago
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature. The yellow Wallpaper is written as a series of diary entries from the perspe...
TeaStitchRead
TeaStitchRead rated it 6 years ago
Date Published: Format: Source: Date Read: Winter COYER/24 in 48 Read-a-thon Blurb Based on the author’s own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the ‘rest cure’ prescribed after the birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colon...
The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it 6 years ago
*whines* It's still miserable, windy winter here!! How do I combat the chills this induced? *shudder* Whenever I read stories like this, I remember that quote "novels win by points, short stories by knock outs". I know I was already whimpering one page in. I finished with a wiki-walk and... How co...
Familiar Diversions
Familiar Diversions rated it 7 years ago
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is one of the few things I read during my vacation that wasn't a graphic novel or manga. I downloaded it via Project Gutenberg. I think I saw a review of it on Booklikes, but I couldn't remember a thing about it. I wasn't even sure what genre it was and, since I didn't bother ...
Shiftyj1
Shiftyj1 rated it 8 years ago
1892? Really? Damn, this was good. This is how short stories are suppose to be done. Creepy. Building dread. Subtle terror and growing madness. Excellent!
Rachel's books
Rachel's books rated it 8 years ago
From the first page (and I think this gives a good idea of the story's direction):"If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression,—a slight hysterical tendency,—what is one to do?...
As the page turns..
As the page turns.. rated it 8 years ago
I keep filling that bingo card a bit randomly.. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Dawn Harvey I came across a different narration of the yellow wallpaper and I loved it. The narrator's voice nailed the creepy factor and even though I knew the story I loved every minute of it. Here i...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it 8 years ago
The long and short of it is, "The Yellow Wallpaper" really is an excellent example of how women were treated in the past and how we are still treated in the present. I got into a fight last with a long time friend who I think has reached the toxic level of friendship for me. Every time we hang out I...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 8 years ago
"This wallpaper has a kind of subpattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then. But in the places where it isn’t faded and where the sun is just so—I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to sk...
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