{"product_id":"the-yellow-wallpaper-charlotte-perkins-gilman-9781943341009","title":"The Yellow Wallpaper","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte Perkins Gilman: Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Many and many a reader has asked that. When the story first came out, in the New England Magazine about 1891, a Boston physician made protest in The Transcript. \"\u003cem\u003eSuch a story ought not to be written, \u003c\/em\u003e\" he said; \"\u003cem\u003eit was enough to drive anyone mad to read it.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnother physician, in Kansas I think, wrote to say that \"\u003cem\u003eit was the best description of incipient insanity he had ever seen, and, \u003c\/em\u003e\" begging my pardon, \"\u003cem\u003ehad I been there?\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow the story of the story is this: For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia--and beyond. During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in nervous diseases, the best known in the country.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis wise man put me to bed and applied the rest cure, to which a still-good physique responded so promptly that he concluded there was nothing much the matter with me, and sent me home with solemn advice to: \u003cem\u003e\"live as domestic a life as far as possible, \u003c\/em\u003e\" to \"\u003cem\u003ehave but two hours' intellectual life a day, \u003c\/em\u003e\" and \"\u003cem\u003enever to touch pen, brush, or pencil again\u003c\/em\u003e\" as long as I lived.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis was in 1887. I went home and obeyed those directions for some three months, and came so near the borderline of utter mental ruin that I could see over. Then, using the remnants of intelligence that remained, and helped by a wise friend, I cast the noted specialist's advice to the winds and went to work again--work, the normal life of every human being; work, in which is joy and growth and service, without which one is a pauper and a parasite--ultimately recovering some measure of power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeing naturally moved to rejoicing by this narrow escape, I wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Yellow Wallpaper\u003c\/em\u003e, with its embellishments and additions, to carry out the ideal (\u003cem\u003eI never had hallucinations or objections to my mural decorations\u003c\/em\u003e) and sent a copy to the physician who so nearly drove me mad. He never acknowledged it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe little book is valued by alienists and as a good specimen of one kind of literature. It has, to my knowledge, saved one woman from a similar fate--so terrifying her family that they let her out into normal activity and she recovered.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut the best result is this. Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading \u003cem\u003eThe Yellow Wallpaper.\u003c\/em\u003e It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis paperback edition of the \u003cstrong\u003eThe Yellow Wallpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e contains a well-curated collection of \u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte Gilman\u003c\/strong\u003e' short stories including: \u003cstrong\u003eIf I Were a Man\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eWhen I Was a Witch\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eA Middle-Sized Artist\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTurned\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHer Housekeeper\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMartha's Mother\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThree Thanksgivings\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Barrel\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTwo Storks\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eA Coincidence\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eWhile The King Slept\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Cottagette\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAn Offender\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMr. Grey\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eA Word In Season\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMy Astonishing Dodo\u003c\/strong\u003e. The stories bristle with ingenious ways of balancing creative and domestic imperatives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf you have enjoyed reading \u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Plath\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cstrong\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Wurtzel\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cstrong\u003eProzac Nation\u003c\/strong\u003e or \u003cstrong\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cstrong\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/strong\u003e, you are bound to enjoy \u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte Gilman\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cstrong\u003eThe Yellow Wallpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlotte Perkins Gilman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1943341001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943341009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e El Sheikh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.31d","brand":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940220633343,"sku":"9781943341009","price":9.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9c1d898a-8bbf-4687-95ee-b0335ca76668.jpg?v=1681445942","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-yellow-wallpaper-charlotte-perkins-gilman-9781943341009","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}