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Smoke
(Hardcover)
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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In 1892 a furious Charlotte Perkins Gilman put pen to paper and
created the avant-garde feminist work The Yellow Wallpaper as a
warning - in this haunting Gothic tale, a woman is confined to a
room and forbidden to do anything interesting - and she loses her
mind. In 1887, following a severe nervous breakdown, Gilman had
been sent to a leading neurologist, she explains in 'Why I Wrote
The Yellow Wallpaper', also included in this volume. He was a 'wise
man' who 'put me to bed and applied the rest cure... and sent me
home with solemn advice to "live as domestic a life as far as
possible"... and "never to touch pen, brush or pencil again" as
long as I lived. I went home and obeyed those directions for some
three months, and came so near the borderline of utter mental ruin
that I could see over.' The Yellow Wallpaper is both a haunting
illustration of the treatment of mental health and a chilling
Gothic tale, and this new edition makes it ready to enchant another
generation of readers.
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