The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories (Audiobook)

from Zommbie1

Synopsis: A nameless narrator tells of a summer in a big house in the country where her physician husband has taken her on doctors orders in order for her nerves to get better (she is suffering from what we now know to be postpartum depression). The doctor has forbidden her (according with the th...

from Cheryl_in_CC_NV

Normally I have little attraction to or respect for Women's Studies" courses, and I'm troubled by some aspects of Feminism. But if this book were the primary text for a college class, I might just sign up.What I found most interesting about this collection is that the title story is the earliest ...

from thewanderingjew

These stories are written in a different time frame, almost a century and a half ago, they are more literature than the made for TV tales turned out furiously on the computers of modern day authors, turned out with stories of violence and sex to attract an audience, rather than with interesting s...

from majesdane

I think a lot of the "points" to these stories were over my head, given the discrepancy in time periods between when these were written and me reading them now in modern day. However!, I did enjoy reading all the short stories and really, I think that's all that matters.

from ihanson1

A frightening book on one woman's decent into madness. Wonderful commentary on the life of 19th century upper middle class women. I recommend this book regularly.