The Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings Av Charlotte Perkins Gilman

<p><b>INTRODUCED BY MAGGIE O''FARRELL</b><br><br><b>''A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect'' MAGGIE O''FARRELL </b><br><br><b>''Even if the themes being explored might seem irrelevant . . . that this is not the case'' <i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br><br><b>''I loved the unnerving, sarcastic tone, the creepy ending'' <i>PARIS REVIEW </i></b><br><br>''<i>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 . . . </i>''<br><br>Based on the author''s own experiences, <i>The Yellow Wallpaper </i>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.<