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The Yellow Wallpaper de Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

Autor Charlotte Perkins Gilman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 oct 2026

Poate fi oare izolarea forțată, impusă sub masca grijii maritale, mai degrabă o formă de tortură decât un tratament? În această scurtă dar densă operă de ficțiune, descoperim o cronică tulburătoare a pierderii autonomiei feminine. Scrisă cu o furie stăpânită, The Yellow Wallpaper ne introduce în mintea unei femei captive nu doar într-o cameră cu un tapet galben respingător, ci și într-o structură socială care îi neagă dreptul la stimulare intelectuală și exprimare creativă. Notăm cu interes cum tonul narativ glisează de la o observație sarcastică, aproape resemnată, către o obsesie febrilă, pe măsură ce protagonista începe să deslușească siluete care se târăsc în spatele modelului complicat de pe perete. Imaginați-vă tensiunea psihologică și atmosfera apăsătoare din The Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings, mutată într-un decor de izolare domestică victoriană unde liniștea este obligatorie, iar scrisul este un act de rebeliune clandestină. Față de alte lucrări ale autoarei, precum Herland, unde Charlotte Perkins Gilman explorează viziuni utopice despre societăți conduse de femei, aici perspectiva este intimă și claustrofobică, concentrându-se pe efectele devastatoare ale lipsei de libertate asupra psihicului uman. Este un roman polițist al minții, unde agresorul este adesea invizibil, ascuns sub bunele intenții ale medicinei secolului al XIX-lea. Ritmul este unul insidios, oglindind degradarea lentă a percepției, iar finalul rămâne unul dintre cele mai stranii și discutate momente din literatura americană.

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ISBN-13: 9781608888245
ISBN-10: 160888824X
Pagini: 52
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: W. Frederick Zimmerman

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor interesat de originile literaturii feministe și de explorările psihologice profunde. The Yellow Wallpaper oferă o perspectivă istorică dură asupra tratamentului sănătății mintale la femei, fiind în același timp o lectură captivantă prin atmosfera sa gotică. Veți câștiga o înțelegere mai clară a modului în care autonomia personală este esențială pentru echilibrul psihic, totul într-un format compact, perfect pentru o lectură intensă.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) a fost o figură centrală a feminismului american, sociolog și scriitoare a cărei viață a fost marcată de o luptă constantă pentru independență. Crescută într-o familie cu legături intelectuale puternice (fiind nepoata lui Harriet Beecher Stowe), dar marcată de sărăcie și abandonul tatălui, Gilman a devenit o voce critică la adresa structurilor opresive ale căsătoriei victoriene. Experiența sa personală cu depresia și tratamentul restrictiv impus de medici a stat la baza operei sale cele mai cunoscute, transformând suferința individuală într-o critică socială universală ce continuă să fie studiată și astăzi.

Descriere scurtă

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, originally published 1892. Gilman renders the narrator's deteriorating perception as much in the rhythm of her sentences as in their content - a technical achievement that disappears at skimming speed. Modern readers find a story whose horror is bureaucratic and domestic, and prose calibrated so the unraveling cannot be looked away from. This Clearview Editions hardcover is built on a production standard that significantly exceeds the industry norm for large-print publishing. The body text is set at 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next on 27-point leading, 1.5 line spacing --- the minimum WCAG 2.2 Level AAA Success Criterion 1.4.8 sets for a block of text, and the figure UKAAF's large-print guidance gives as well. The leading North American large-print hardcover imprints typically set their body text at 16 point, and most large-print trade paperbacks release at 14 to 16 point. At 18 point, Clearview Editions offers text that is measurably larger than every other major large-print publisher, specifically for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, or any visual condition that makes standard trade print frustrating or impossible to read for long stretches. The trim size is equally generous. Clearview Editions is printed on a 7x10-inch page, substantially larger than the 6x9 hardcover that is standard in the large-print industry and roughly 50 percent larger by area than the 5x8 trade paperback trim most legacy large-print paperback imprints use. The extra page area is deliberate: it allows the 18-point body to set at the 50-to-55 character line length that reading-fatigue research identifies as optimal, without the narrow text columns and cramped margins that plague smaller-trim large-print books. Wide interior margins keep the binding from swallowing the gutter text and leave the thumb margins comfortable for older hands gripping a heavier hardcover. The body font, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, was developed by the Braille Institute of America specifically to maximize letter recognition for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, and visual processing differences. It distinguishes between commonly-confused letter pairs - lowercase l versus uppercase I, the digit 0 versus uppercase O, b versus d, p versus q - using distinctive shape features that preserve readability even under eye strain. Text is set ragged right with no word division: WCAG 2.2 1.4.8 and UKAAF both advise against justifying large-print text, since the uneven word spacing it creates is harder to track, and against breaking a word across a line ending, since the reader then has to reassemble it. Every page is protected against widowed and orphaned lines, and all illustrations are reproduced in 300-DPI grayscale on coated white text stock. The text of this edition is faithfully preserved from the original public-domain source with the full structural integrity of parts and chapters as the author intended, and every part and chapter is bookmarked in the PDF outline for readers using digital reading devices or reading software. Clearview Editions is an imprint of Nimble Books LLC, dedicated to bringing the canon of public-domain literature to low-vision readers and to anyone who has ever found standard trade-paperback print too small, too cramped, or too tiring for the kind of sustained reading a great book deserves. Clarity first. Before setting this edition, Clearview scanned 29,475,453 Amazon reviews and found 22,591 that discuss large-print books specifically; among the 6,659 negative reviews in that set, the single most common complaint was that a "large print" edition wasn't meaningfully larger than ordinary type.

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First appearing in 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper is a searing vision of a distinctively feminine form of madness and commands attention as an arresting tale of horror and a moving look into a woman's mind.

 

The story uncompromisingly thrusts the reader into the mind of the narrator. She is a woman forced, ostensibly for her own good, into a 'rest cure', a psychological straitjacket so constricting that she begins to unravel. Her mental dissolution is described with such fierce immediacy that The Yellow Wallpaper has been read and anthologized as a chilling horror tale. While it can easily be appreciated for its disorienting thrills, the story's true resonance comes from its matter-of-fact portrayal of a woman pushed to the rim of sanity by society's demands and her family's utter inability to conceive of the fact that she cannot fit within their strictures. Shot through with unforgettable images of the yellow wallpaper, its shadowy depths and what seems to lurk there, The Yellow Wallpaper builds to a climax that combines the narrative impact of an Edgar Allan Poe story with a wrenching protest of the treatment of women. Unique and genre-bending, Gilman's story was unrivaled in its era and its power endures undiminished today.

With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Yellow Wallpaper is both modern and readable.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short stories. Seven of her finest are reprinted here.
Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naive servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and three other outstanding stories.
These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women and how they might be improved."

Notă biografică

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, her first married name, was a prominent American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Her best remembered works today are her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper, which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis; and Herland, the rediscovered feminist classic about a civilisation without men.

Recenzii

Even if the themes being explored might seem irrelevant to you today and especially to such young audience, I can assure you that this is not the case
A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect
I loved it. I loved the unnerving, sarcastic tone, the creepy ending, the clarity of its critique of the popular nineteenth century