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The yellow wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; introduced by Maggie O´Farrell

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Virago Modern ClassicsPublication details: New York Virago 2009Description: 63 pISBN:
  • 9780860682011
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813
Online resources: Summary: Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere, forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, secretly she does what she has to do - she writes. She craves intellectual stimulation, activity, loving understanding, instead she is ordered to her bedroom to rest and 'pull herself together'. Here, slowly but surely, the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind...
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Livros Livros ECB - ÁGUAS CLARAS AP Year 7 813 GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00061239AGC
Livros Livros ECB - SUDOESTE P Year 7 813 GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00061238SSW
Livros Livros ECB - SUDOESTE P Year 7 813 GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00061240SSW

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere, forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, secretly she does what she has to do - she writes. She craves intellectual stimulation, activity, loving understanding, instead she is ordered to her bedroom to rest and 'pull herself together'. Here, slowly but surely, the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind...

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