[DOWNLOAD] ~ Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) * by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
- Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Release Date : January 20, 2006
- Genre: Literary,Books,Fiction & Literature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 911 KB
Description
This volume pairs two of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's most famous works, Herland (1915) and "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892). Herland, a utopian novel, sketches Gilman's model of a society governed, inhabited, and perpetuated solely by women; while "The Yellow Wallpaper," typically categorized as a Gothic or horror story, dramatizes a young wife's postpartum descent into madness. These powerful examples of Gilman's fiction illuminate, perhaps even more effectively than her nonfiction, the complexity and passion of her mission for egalitarianism among the sexes. Reading these works today also helps us to define the scope of Gilman's progressiveness, revealing how far we have come as well as how far we have yet to travel to make true equality a requisite condition of human life.