The Yellow Wall-Paper

`The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.`Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for`nerves`and forbidden to write, Gilman`s pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin`s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). Gilman`s work is available in Penguin Classics in The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland and Selected Writings. ISBN:978-0-14-139741-2