The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

⏱ 8 minGothic classic

Confined for her own good to a barred nursery and forbidden to work, a young wife becomes obsessed with the room's hideous yellow wallpaper, and with the woman she comes to see creeping behind its pattern. Gilman's chilling proto-feminist masterpiece.

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