The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Yellow Wallpaper

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrator: Beata Pozniak

Unabridged: 1 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/24/2021


Synopsis

A groundbreaking feminist masterpiece and one of the most exquisite horror stories in American literature.Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper.In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.With masterly use of unreliable storytelling and a scathing indictment of patriarchal medical practices, The Yellow Wallpaper is a true American classic.

About Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) gained much of her fame with lectures on women’s issues, ethics, labor, human rights, and social reform. She often referred to these themes in her fiction. She is best remembered for her 1892 short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” based on her own bout with severe postpartum depression and misguided medical treatment.

About Beata Pozniak

Beata Poźniak, known for playing Marina Oswald in Oscar nominated JFK, has narrated bestsellers The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great and Illuminae, which received an Audie Award. The Tsar of Love and Techno was selected in the Top 5 Best Audiobooks of the Year by the Washington Post. She received an Earphones Award for narrating Nobel Prize–winning Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and another Earphones Award for The Light in Hidden Places, which followed a Voice Arts Award Nomination for Libretto for the Desert: Poetry Dedicated for the Victims of Genocide and War. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Pixie on December 08, 2020

I read 'Herland' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman many years ago as part of my many readings into utopic societies and ideas. This is still a fabulous story, a fictional utopia, written at a time (1915) when women were still struggling for the right to vote & the US was slowly breaking out of the Victori......more

Goodreads review by rikaaa on May 14, 2023

Incredible, but I can confidently say without research that this is the basis for white feminism......more

Goodreads review by alisha on January 25, 2024

i already rated the yellow wallpaper (definite 5 star read) but herland was just not as impressive literarily ??? idk......more


Quotes

“Narrator Beata Pozniak’s captivating accent and likable style are ideal for this seminal feminist short story (1892)…Pozniak faultlessly delivers journal entries that express the woman’s longing to see her baby and to go outside. She is kept in a room with yellow wallpaper, whose eerie designs eventually appear to come alive. Impressive sound effects—for example, the wallpaper’s movements and sounds, as well as the woman’s breathing—augment Pozniak’s voice as it slides into notes of terror. Those elements and a riveting conclusion demonstrate that audiobooks can be as horrifying as anything on the screen.” AudioFile