Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

This volume pairs two of Charlotte Perkins Gilmans most famous works, Herland (1915) and "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892). Herland, a utopian novel, sketches Gilmans model of a society governed, inhabited, and perpetuated solely by women; while "The Yellow Wallpaper," typically categorized as a Gothic or horror story, dramatizes a young wifes postpartum descent into madness. These powerful examples o...