{"product_id":"the-yellow-wallpaper-charlotte-perkins-gilman","title":"The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn isolated room, a secret journal, and yellow wallpaper that gradually becomes an obsession. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic of psychological horror and Gothic fiction, first published in 1892.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe complete, unabridged English story: all 267 narrative paragraphs and ten original section breaks. Reflowable EPUB with selectable, searchable text, adjustable type, embedded fonts and linked contents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal English text retained from Project Gutenberg ebook 1952, credited to An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger. New AI-assisted cover by Nile Book Store. Original story public domain in the USA; source credits and full licence included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca id=\"nile-free-epub-download\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/the-yellow-wallpaper-en-complete.epub?v=1792421881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" download\u003eDownload the complete English story — free EPUB\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2-%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86\"\u003eالنسخة العربية\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003csection id=\"nile-opening-preview\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"border:1px solid #dfdacb;border-radius:12px;padding:20px;margin:20px 0;background:#fffdfa\"\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePreview — opening of the book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first sixteen paragraphs of the story\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eIt is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eA colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eStill I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eElse, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eJohn laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eJohn is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eJohn is a physician, and perhaps—(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)—perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eYou see, he does not believe I am sick!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eAnd what can one do?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eIf a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eMy brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eSo I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am well again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003ePersonally, I disagree with their ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003ePersonally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eBut what is one to do?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.85\"\u003eI did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal—having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca id=\"nile-preview-epub-download\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/the-yellow-wallpaper-en-opening-preview.epub?v=1792421881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" download\u003eDownload the opening EPUB preview\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:.85em\"\u003eThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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