It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches ...The colour is repellent ...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 skulk about ...'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 colonial mansion,in a room with bars on the windows,the tortuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind.Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. In addition to her masterpiece'The Yellow Wallpaper',this new edition includes a selection of her best short fiction and extracts from her autobiography.
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Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781844085583Number of pages: 384Weight: 300 gDimensions: 198 x 128 x 25 mm
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A great work of literature,the product of a questing,burning intellect Maggie O'Farrell
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Waterstones has been a keen early advocate of Maggie O'Farrell since we identified her as a talent to watch in our 25 Authors of the Future list back in 2007 aftersupporting her brilliant debutAfter You'd Gone. Since then she's continued to impress with novels including:Instructions for a Heatwave,The Hand That First Held Mine(for which she won the Costa Book Award) and This Must Be the Place.
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