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PENGUIN LITTLE BLACK CLASSICS THE YELLOW WALL...

'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 for 'nerves'
and forbidden to write  Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized
nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has
literally nothing to do.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th
birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics 
with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride
over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan  from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century
California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage  poems epic and intimate
essays satirical and inspirational  and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Charlotte
Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). Gilman's work is available in Penguin Classics in The Yellow
Wall-Paper  Herland and Selected Writings.

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