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The American Classics Collection: Volume II is a century-spanning collection of 15 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Adam Sims; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, Katherine Fenton; and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Herman Melville; Upton Sinclair; Mark Twain; Walt Whitman; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Thornton Wilder; Edith Wharton; Jack London; amongst a host of others.

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.

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), 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.

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. 

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.

"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.

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.

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Jessica Brown Findlay, Jamael Westman and Sheila Atim. 'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing' Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room...

Após o nascimento de seu filho, uma mulher é diagnosticada com depressão nervosa temporária e leve tendência histérica; parte do tratamento é ficar confinada a um cômodo da casa. Diagnósticos e tratamento comuns à época...

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.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. First published in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, The Yellow Wallpaper is a haunting tale of isolation, confinement, and psychological unraveling. Confined to an upstairs room by her physician husband, a young woman is forbidden to work or write as...

In this volume we examine Gothic short stories from the woman’s point of view. More usually in this genre the main examples are almost always given as male. Well, in this volume we prove that view needs severely testing. Here we explore works by classic women authors who, with the sheer breadth of their talents and narratives, can make mere men seem tame by comparison.

The diary is that most intimate of journals, of records. Within its pages the writer records and gives expression to their thoughts, their feelings, their emotional state on all the things that make up and surround them in this world. With authors of the calibre of Bulgakov, Woolf, Tolstoy, Twain and many others this volume explores characters whose lives seem dominated by these diaries, and the events that unfold are both compelling and literary journeys into the very personal and intimate side of their characters’ lives.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. ¿Te imaginas una sociedad construida y dirigida exclusivamente por mujeres? En *Herland*, Charlotte Perkins Gilman plantea esta provocadora pregunta para cuestionar muchas ideas que todavía hoy damos por sentadas sobre las mujeres, la familia, la...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. **El tapiz amarillo**, de Charlotte Perkins Gilman, es mucho más que un relato inquietante: es una poderosa reflexión sobre la autonomía, la identidad y el impacto de la opresión en la salud emocional. La protagonista, confinada en una habitación y...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *Si yo fuera un hombre*, de Charlotte Perkins Gilman, es un relato breve que sigue resultando sorprendentemente actual. A través de una mujer que imagina cómo sería vivir con los privilegios y libertades reservados a los hombres de su época, la...

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.