The Yellow Wallpaper. Womenland
Author: Шарлотта Гилман
Printhouse: Eksmo
Series: Loft. Freedom, equality, passion
Age restrictions: 18+
Year of publication: 2025
ISBN: 9785042208256
Number of pages: 256
Size: 215x140x22 mm
Cover type: мягкая
Weight: 260 g
ID: 1719745
«The Yellow Wallpaper» — a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in the magazine «New England». The novel is considered an important early work of American women's literature about the treatment of women's health in the 19th century. It is also highly regarded as a work in the horror genre.
The story is written in the form of a collection of diary entries, narrated from the first person. A woman who has recently given birth, whose physician husband has rented an old mansion for the summer, is in an uneasy state due to the terrible yellow wallpaper left in the nursery on the second floor. The heroine cannot stand the sight of this wallpaper, she begins to see various disturbing images, and we gradually immerse ourselves in her condition.
«Womenland» — a utopian novel about an isolated society composed exclusively of women, — a society free from wars and conflicts. But only until men arrive there.