The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Yellow Wallpaper
A Classic Psychological Story of Isolation and Madness

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrator: Laura Greaves

Unabridged: 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Velubri Audio

Published: 05/29/2026


Synopsis

"John is a physician... perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster." Locked away in a secluded colonial mansion for a summer of "rest," a young mother is forbidden to write, think, or speak her truth. Her prison is an attic nursery with barred windows, a gnawed bedstead, and a wall covered in a hideous, peeling yellow paper. She has only one escape: a secret journal, written in feverish, stolen moments of silence. But as the stifling days blur together, the wallpaper begins to breathe. Behind its chaotic, bulging patterns and unclean, sulfurous coils, a shadow is creeping. A trapped woman is shaking the bars of the design, desperate to claw her way out - and she is inviting her to help. Is it madness, or is she finally seeing the truth? Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s chilling masterpiece is a terrifying dive into gaslighting, isolation, and a mind setting itself free. Press play and lose yourself in the shadows - if you dare to look behind the paper...

About Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American feminist, author, and social critic who wrote several novels, over two hundred short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Gilman spent much of her youth in Providence, Rhode Island, and was frequently in the presence of her father's family, which included Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the famous suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker. From 1909 to 1916, Gilman wrote and edited her own magazine, the Forerunner, in which much of her fiction appeared. Her large body of work, which examines the economic and social position of women in society, includes the semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," the feminist utopian novel Herland, the poetry volume In This World, the nonfiction work Women and Economics, and her posthumously published autobiography, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.


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