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The Yellow Wallpaper
- Author
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Narrator
- Jo Myddleton
- Publisher
- Summersdale
- Publish Date
- 25 March 2008
- Run Time
- 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Biographical fiction
What to expect
Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.
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- Author
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Narrator
- Jo Myddleton
- Duration
- 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 March 2008
- ISBN
- 9781848390645
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Summersdale
- Genre
- Biographical fiction
Synopsis
In this classic late-nineteenth-century story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a new mother suffering from what we might today call 'post-partum depression', is diagnosed with a nervous disorder.Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.
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