The Yellow Wallpaper Audiobook, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Play Audiobook Sample

The Yellow Wallpaper Audiobook

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Read By: Beata Pozniak Publisher: Discordia Global Media Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798200816422

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

3

Longest Chapter Length:

59:08 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

29 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

20:19 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

23

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Publisher Description

A groundbreaking feminist masterpiece and one of the most exquisite horror stories in American literature.

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper.

In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.

With masterly use of unreliable storytelling and a scathing indictment of patriarchal medical practices, The Yellow Wallpaper is a true American classic.

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“Narrator Beata Pozniak’s captivating accent and likable style are ideal for this seminal feminist short story (1892)…Pozniak faultlessly delivers journal entries that express the woman’s longing to see her baby and to go outside. She is kept in a room with yellow wallpaper, whose eerie designs eventually appear to come alive. Impressive sound effects—for example, the wallpaper’s movements and sounds, as well as the woman’s breathing—augment Pozniak’s voice as it slides into notes of terror. Those elements and a riveting conclusion demonstrate that audiobooks can be as horrifying as anything on the screen.”

— AudioFile 

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About Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) gained much of her fame with lectures on women’s issues, ethics, labor, human rights, and social reform. She often referred to these themes in her fiction. She is best remembered for her 1892 short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” based on her own bout with severe postpartum depression and misguided medical treatment.

About Beata Pozniak

Beata Pozniak - wyrózniona przez Washington Post za nagranie najlepszego audiobooka roku w USA, dzieki czemu zostala nie tylko pierwsza Polka, ale pierwsza nieanglojezyczna aktorka, które zatrudnilo n ajwieksze anglojezyczne wydawnictwo literackie na swiecie – Penguin Random House. Za „Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” Olgi Tokarczuk i “The Light in Hidden Places” zdobyla prestizowe nagrody Earphones Awards. Otrzymala 5 nominacji do Voice Arts Awards, m.in. za „Libretto for the Desert”. W Polsce zadebiutowala w “Zycie Kamila Kuranta”, a w USA u Olivera Stone’a w wielooskarowym filmie “JFK” grajac zone Gary’ego Oldmana. Pamietana jest z teatru tv grajac Ofelie w “Hamlecie we wsi Glucha Dolna” (Zlota Setka Teatru TV) czy z seriali: “Kroniki Mlodego Indiana Jones”, “Zlotopolscy”, “Melrose Place”, czy tez “Babylon 5” gdzie zagrala Kobiete Prezydenta swiata. W USA zaproponowala wprowadzenie ustawy obchodzenia Dnia Kobiet za co zostala wyrózniona przez Burmistrza Los Angeles i w Kongresie USA.