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Short stories Classics Horror 2009

Yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Published in Spanish as El papel pintado amarillo

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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.

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What it is

Told in letters, diaries or messages · full of big ideas

What happens in it

Letters and diaries Closed setting Unreliable narrator

How it feels

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Is it for you?

It's for you if…

  • you enjoy not trusting who's telling it
  • you like a story shut inside one place
  • you like a book that leaves you uneasy

Maybe not if…

  • you're after something comforting

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