The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)

In a long-unoccupied mansion, a new mother is confined to what was once a nursery. She is assured by her physician husband that it is a necessary cure to ease her "nervous depression." Isolated and powerless, she becomes obsessed with the peeling, sickly colored wallpaper. In it, she sees what no one else can: a prisoner desperate to escape its maddening design.

A condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Yellow Wallpaper, this edition of The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved

Great classic

This is a great story, short and captivating. There’s a lot of symbolism and metaphors. I liked that you’re reading through the lens of the one experiencing the mental deterioration. Interesting take!

Great listen.

Fun and short. It’s fascinating to see how the plot ends. I was expecting a different kind of crazy though.

This British narrator is good

What a difference a narrator makes. Almost gave up on this story with a poor narrator.

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This has always been a favorite story. The narration is good though I will probably always prefer my mind narration.

Reader apparently illiterate

Story is fascinating but reading is fraught with mispronunciations which spoil the flow of the narrative