Charlotte Perkins Gilman 2009
- What it is
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Told in letters, diaries or messages · full of big ideas
- Genre
- Short stories Classics Horror
- Feels
- Cerebral Unsettling Defiant Dark
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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It gets under your skin and short stories
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Closed setting and short stories
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A reader shelved it with yours in Houses that close around the woman inside
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In common with yours: closed setting · nobody is entirely good
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It messes with your head · it'll scare you
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You'll keep turning it over for days, but in a mystery
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It ties your stomach in a knot · it's a story collection
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Like yours: unreliable narrator · sad, and in no hurry
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No clean hands here · fierce and defiant
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Melancholic and unhurried · a myth or a classic told anew
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Like yours: letters and diaries · it leaves you with a warm feeling
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