The Yellow Wall-Paper

-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 -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.