The Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings

INTRODUCED BY MAGGIE O''FARRELL

''A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect'' MAGGIE O''FARRELL

''Even if the themes being explored might seem irrelevant . . . that this is not the case'' GUARDIAN

''I loved the unnerving, sarcastic tone, the creepy ending'' PARIS REVIEW

''It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn''t faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . . ''

Based on the author''s own experiences, The Yellow Wallpaper is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the ''rest cure'' prescribed after the birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colonial mansion, in a room with bars on the windows, the tortuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind.<