As you start browsing living room decorating ideas for your home, think about the space's desired purpose and focus on a few staple items, such as a comfortable sofa and a coffee table, then choose the rest of the accent. What they find surprises them all they’re captured by women who, for two thousand years, have lived in a peaceful and prosperous utopia without men. A living room with Yellow Walls can serve many different functions, from a formal sitting area to a casual living space. In Herland, a trio of men set out to discover an all-female community rumoured to be hidden deep in the jungle. A powerful study of mental illness and the inhuman treatments.

This chilling story is based on the author’s own experience of depression. The Yellow Wallpaper is an 1892 short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

This edition is introduced by journalist and author Lucy Mangan.Ĭonfined to her attic bedroom and isolated from her newborn baby, the nameless narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper keeps a secret diary in which she records the sprawling and shifting patterns of the room’s lurid yellow wallpaper as she slowly sinks into madness. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. The Yellow Wallpaper skillfully charts one woman's struggle with depression whilst Herland is an entertaining imagining of an all female utopia. Depicting the nervous breakdown of a young wife and mother, the story is a potent example of psychological realism. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s progressive views on feminism and mental health are powerfully showcased in her two most famous stories. First published in New England Magazine in January 1892, and reprinted by Small, Maynard and Company as a chapbook (1899), The Yellow Wall-Paper is Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s most famous work.

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