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Un racconto intenso e inquietante, considerato un classico della letteratura femminista. In La carta da parati gialla, Charlotte Perkins Gilman conduce l’ascoltatore nella mente di una donna costretta all’isolamento e al silenzio, mentre una semplice parete diventa il riflesso delle sue...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) è stata una scrittrice, saggista e attivista statunitense, figura di spicco del femminismo americano.Critica nei confronti delle strutture patriarcali, sosteneva l'indipendenza economica delle donne, la riforma della famiglia tradizionale e una visione sociale più equa. I suoi racconti spesso uniscono satira, critica sociale ed elementi fantastici o psicologici.

First published in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper is a classic short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It's an early work of feminist literature focused on a female protagonist and her relationship with husband John. A great work for studying and casual listening. This version of The Yellow Wallpaper has excellent narration and the highest quality of audio. All audio is engineered with careful attention to detail for your enjoyment of the story. 

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", which was based on her own bout with severe depression and misguided medical treatment.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a haunting psychological short story that explores isolation, mental health, and the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. Through the unsettling diary of a woman confined to a room with disturbing yellow wallpaper, Gilman crafts a chilling descent into obsession that remains one of the most powerful feminist works in American literature.

Vi invitiamo a intraprendere un affascinante viaggio in una società utopica nascosta nel romanzo femminista rivoluzionario di Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Quando tre esploratori americani scoprono una civiltà isolata composta interamente da donne, incontrano un mondo che sfida ogni presupposto su genere, società e potenziale umano. Attraverso il loro punto di vista, esploriamo una cultura straordinaria che si è evoluta per duemila anni senza uomini - un luogo dove regna la pace, i bambini sono amati da tutti e la cooperazione sostituisce la competizione.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This iconic psychological horror and feminist classic, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is narrated through the intimate, unraveling diary of a young woman struggling with postpartum mental distress. Prescribed a strict “rest cure”...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. A decade of monumental change and slaughter. Many of society’s telling questions are cast aside in times of that speak of greater needs, greater priorities. For these talented authors their ideas and words keep these magnificent stories at the forefront of our literary lives.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman is known for her themes of female entrapment and patriarchal control, and she gives this a Gothic twist in "The Giant Wistaria". A wealthy young couple and their friends rent a manor house, excited by the prospect that it’s haunted, and they are not disappointed when they all experience the same vivid dream.

We are all driven by needs, desires, ambitions and many other forces. Life runs as normal with the obligatory ups and downs. In this volume such literary leviathans as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others provide tales from pens that seep with wisdom and worry.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, first published in 1915, is a feminist utopian novel that describes an isolated society composed entirely of women---a progressive, environmentally conscious land where peace and rationality reign and poverty is unknown.

Presented 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 and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, she is forbidden from working, but encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women in that period.

In this thought-provoking exploration, the author delves into the essence of masculinity, distinguishing between inherent human traits and those shaped by gender. Rather than simply attributing existence to masculine characteristics, the book illuminates the distinct masculine qualities and their profound impact on human society. It challenges readers to reflect on the consequences of a world dominated by one sex, inviting a deeper understanding of how these dynamics shape our lives. (Excerpt from the first chapter)

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.

"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...

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Four is the fourth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Four features 12 timeless works that largely focuses on the greats of American and British literature, with novels from Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, and others. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, Adam Sims, David Rintoul, and more, this is a chance to expand your listening with some of the greatest authors of all time.

As haunting as it is poignant, The Yellow Wallpaper is a deeply compelling short story that follows a woman's descent into madness. Having been confined to a nursery by her physician and husband after a nervous depression, the protagonist is denied access to writing or working, and soon begins to feel stifled by the four walls which she inhabits. Over time, she begins to develop an obsessive fascination with the room's yellow wallpaper, perceiving the figure of a trapped woman behind the paper's patterns.

Explore the powerful intersection of art and activism in "Suffrage Songs and Verses," a podcast dedicated to the literary voices that championed women's rights and social change. Each episode features a new complete audiobook, highlighting the rich tapestry of poetry and prose that emerged from the suffrage movement. Listeners will encounter a diverse array of works that echo the struggles and triumphs of those who fought for equality, offering insights into their hopes, challenges, and the spirit of resilience that defined their era. This is not a single story but a series of unique ...

The Crux is the story of group of women who move from New England to Colorado in order to run a boardinghouse for men. One of these women, the young Vivian Lane, falls in love with a man who has both gonorrhea and syphilis. It then falls to Vivian, when she learns of his illnesses, to decide whether she should marry and have children with this man. She is torn between her own heart and the “duty” of motherhood, as one doctor in the novel puts it, to have children with a healthy father.

Representing the dark underbelly of Romanticism and beyond, these stories reach the shadowy corners of the human soul as seen through the writings of some of the most prominent authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.