The Yellow Wallpaper
- First published
- First published 1892
- Reading time
- 31 min read
- Original language
- Originally in English
- Chapters
- 1 chapters
A woman is put to bed for her own good, and begins to read the wallpaper.
About this book
Confined to an upstairs room by a husband-physician who prescribes rest and forbids work, the narrator keeps a secret journal. What starts as mild complaint about a hideous yellow wallpaper becomes one of the most claustrophobic stories in American literature, and one of its sharpest arguments.
Why read this?
Under an hour to read, impossible to shake off, and a complete story from first line to last.
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- Source:
- Project Gutenberg
- Gutenberg ID:
- 1952
Project Gutenberg plain-text edition, lightly reformatted for the web.
Project Gutenberg plain-text edition, lightly reformatted for the web.