The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

I woke up around midnight last night unexpectedly, and, in an attempt to go back to sleep, started listening to an audiobook. I've had The Yellow Wallpaper on my list to read for The Classics Club for a long time, and I had just found an audiobook on Hoopla yesterday, so I decided to start it when I woke up in the night.

Well, I was able to start it and finish it! It was only forty-five minutes, a little over sixty pages. I had no idea it was so short, or perhaps I would have read it long ago.

It's a story with a fascinating point-of-view. Our main character is a wife with a husband and a young baby. The family has come to stay in a manor house for three months. The wife tells the story of her experiences in the house where she stays most of the time in an old nursery room covered with yellow wallpaper. The wallpaper grows more and more frightening to the wife as she seems to withdraw further and further into herself.

A very emotional read.