The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jul 2020 · Google Play Public Domain · AI-narrated by Anya (from Google)

About this audiobook

This short story is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, due to its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.

Narrated in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a diagnosis common to women during that period.

Ratings and reviews

a grate exsprince but it felt very robotic with little sound effects like most audio books. Tho for the value of what it costed to get this book it was really good i can forgive a robotic narator. it was well worth it as the story was amazeing.

Yikes! It's like having my GPS read me a bedtime story 😅. I'm sure the voice will get better over time though. However, if you really wanted to hear the story bad enough, you could overlook the choppiness.

The voice is not a voice that has any charictor its a voice for doctormentry not stories. It's astange story but the description s are very good the vocabulary is excellent I am not sure about the outcome as of yet the story might become clearer as it goes on The voice is very clear. Easy to understand the app is very good I love to listen to stories The ones that are free helps me to be able to be part of modern technology as well as enjoy a good story

About the author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 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. She wrote this semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.