YELLOW WALLPAPER AND SELECTED WRITINGS (VIRAGO) (PB)

Based on the author's own experience, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the 'rest cure' prescribed after the birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colonial mansion, in a room with bars on the windows, the tortuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual in the early twentieth century. This book includes a selection of her best short fiction and extracts from her autobiography.