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Title details for The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Available

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Freya Hansen
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Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman (Jane) whose physician husband (John) has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.

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  • Release date

    March 10, 2017

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781518944086
      • File size: 18504 KB
      • Duration: 00:38:32

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In 1892 an unnamed woman passes the slow days of summer writing down her innermost thoughts while convalescing. Her observations focus on the strange effects of the peeling, fading, yellow wallpaper in her bedroom. The Spencer Library has created a unique audio experience in this chilling tale with profound psychological and moral implications. Claudette Sutherland gives a remarkable performance. Her subtly expressive voice is so skillfully recorded that her soft intakes of breath have a desperate life of their own. The haunting beauty of Carol Nethen's original score can momentarily distract, but it supports more than it interferes, a tribute both to the composer and to the excellence of the recording standards. The listener is rewarded with a fully realized dramatic performance with a strong musical presence. C.T. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 26, 2017
      Yuen leads listeners convincingly through this beautifully wrought 1892 short story. She begins the first-person narrative with the voice of a sensible if somewhat distraught young woman confined by her doctor husband to an attic room with hideous yellow wallpaper and bars on the windows. She is thought to have a nervous condition and is permitted no activity, including writing, lest it tire her. Eschewing melodrama, Yuen gradually changes tone and inflection as the weeks pass and the wife starts tearing down the wallpaper, perceives another woman behind it trying to get out, and finally descends into madness. It’s a short, intoxicating listen that merits more than one replay.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Beata Pozniak's captivating accent and likable style are ideal for this seminal feminist short story (1892). An unnamed woman is suffering from postnatal "temporary nervous depression," according to her husband, a doctor, who believes he knows what's best for her: strict isolation and bed rest. Pozniak faultlessly delivers journal entries that express the woman's longing to see her baby and to go outside. She is kept in a room with yellow wallpaper, whose eerie designs eventually appear to come alive. Impressive sound effects--for example, the wallpaper's movements and sounds, as well as the woman's breathing--augment Pozniak's voice as it slides into notes of terror. Those elements and a riveting conclusion demonstrate that audiobooks can be as horrifying as anything on the screen. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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