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  <title><![CDATA[The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Enjoy 7 thought-provoking stories that employ charm and humor to examine relations between the sexes from a feminist perspective. In addition to the title story, an 1892 classic that recounts a woman's descent into madness, this collection includes such masterful stories as&#160;&quot;Cottagette,&quot; &quot;Turned,&quot; &quot;Mr. Peebles' Heart,&quot; and more.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1892</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Yellow Wallpaper</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 03 20:33:09 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has got to be one of the most impressive short stories ever written, up there with the very best. Written in the late 1800's, it is surprisingly modern in its form &amp; content. When I was an undergraduate, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an undiscovered writer, but thankfully she's been very much di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23653968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10449929">
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 14 20:06:41 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 14 22:41:32 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Roland Barthes talked about 'writerly' and 'readerly' books. I've struggled for a long time, myself, in trying to come up for terms to talk about the differences between conscientious works and those which are too bumbling, too one-sided, or too ill-informed to make the reader think. <br/><br/>Whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10449929">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20210551">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone looking to be educated on the misconceptions of postpartum depression]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[My client left it for me to read while I was house/dog sitting f]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 15 06:55:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 15 20:39:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a story written in the 1800's by a woman thought to have a 'nervous condition', surely all in her head.  She desperately longs to write but her husband and doctor forbid it.  This story is compiled of the journal entries she sneaks while they aren't watching.  <br/><br/>She is told to put ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20210551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4842151">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who thinks wearing a corset is a good idea.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 20 19:47:56 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read the Yellow Wallpaper as a moderately young person, when I was more concerned with being a young quasi-socialite than actually dissecting literature to learn something about how to best live my life as an intelligent person. I thought of school as the time between weekends, and the class...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4842151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6963420">
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 28 14:58:57 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like anyone who's ever taken a Womens' Studies course, I read The Yellow Wallpaper for a class. I felt completely insane during the time I was reading it. <br/><br/>Then I came across &quot;Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper&quot; by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, and she says this &quot;But the best re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6963420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42499975">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Fans of the author, Sylvia Plath fans, etc]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[A university Lecturer.]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 09 15:07:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Yellow Wallpaper has just the depressing and demented atmoshphere that sparks curiosity in me, I found the story extremely interesting and effective; though I do find myself cringing at the idea of 'femminism' I do enjoy certain peices of feminist literature, especially if the very idea annoys m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42499975">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 16 13:11:01 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Much like the narrator in the story, the author of “The Yellow Wallpaper” was enduring a rest cure. The author was advised by her physician to “…avoid all physical activity, especially writing.” The narrator is under a forced rest cure by her husband, and the same rules apply. She is locke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27182753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11037993">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 26 12:27:44 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 03 10:14:50 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was initially exposed to this book from goodreads 1001 books to read forum highlighting quick reads on that list.  I read this book in one quick sitting and I was frankly astounded.  The book is told from a first person narrative where a Victorian era woman likely suffering from post-partum depres...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11037993">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38048536">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and non fiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38048536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="414343">
    <user id="29720">
    <name><![CDATA[Wyatt]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[China]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Mar 24 17:30:49 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a collection, I had to keep reminding myself that she wrote this in the 1890's, when feminism was pretty revolutionary. Without that time frame it comes off as preachy and predictable. It reads less like a series of short stories and more like an instruction manual: this is how a strong woman sho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/414343">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53616030">
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    <location><![CDATA[Rancho Cucamonga, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a story of a woman going mad, it's pretty interesting how she describes her thoughts, mainly about the &quot;yellow wallpaper&quot; that seems to come alive to her!  Really a good, quick, read.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novella is a terrifying account of one women's descent into madness.  This tale is told in the first person by the wife of a doctor.  Modern day readers will recognize that she is suffering from postpartum depression.  This book was published in 1892 and therefore reflects the attitudes and tre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43915212">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38176272">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ginya]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 19 17:08:24 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 19 19:05:45 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A definite classic for any noir fiction fan. This short story follows a woman's descent into madness and also sheds some light on the relationship and treatment of women and illness during that century.<br/><br/>The story is written in first person, in what reads like a personal diary of sorts, by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38176272">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55670320">
    <user id="130698">
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    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved this short collection of stories, each of which is an empowering snapshot into a handful of turn of the century women's lives made better through effort, creativity, and finally independence.  <br/><br/>As I read these stories, I couldn't help but feel something akin to 'guilty plea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55670320">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49481859">
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    <body><![CDATA[i definitely enjoyed it but my problems were:<br/><br/>1. i already knew what was going to happen even before i started reading it. i would've liked to notice it for myself. but i think this is one of those works that is treated kind of publicly, where, as you are getting recommended it, you are a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49481859">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54303927">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an excellent book as was the movie that went with it. However the reader has to keep in mind that the issues faced by the woman in the novella were only encountered by rich or upper middle class white women. Black women and other women of color had to work whether they wanted to or not and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54303927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a profound glimpse at the heart of a woman trapped by gender and time. Like looking at a piece of amber with inclusions: makes you wonder what it was like to for a tiny insect to find herself stuck in sticky resin forever.  A must read from both literary and women's studies aspects.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks to my friend, Chad Sanderson, for recommending this book to expand my &quot;liberal arts&quot; education.  Short, powerful and haunting - perfect for this time of year.  The story seeps into you like the color and smell of the wallpaper.  I wish I had a book club to discuss...I have so many q...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73781558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that I appreciated without enjoying very much. It is clearly important from a lit-historical perspective, and interesting sociologically, but it's sooooo dated. Maybe that's not a fair criticism, but I remember that as my overwhelming reaction.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this a few times and have had arguments over what it means.  I think the ending is actually triumphant, it's her husband who is horrified.  Even though she's hunched over and completely mad, at least she's not his simpleton wife anymore.]]></body>
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