The Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Feminist Fiction, Essays, and Visions of Social ReformBy Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Length69h 3m
About this audiobook
The Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman gathers the remarkable range of a writer whose fiction, poetry, and essays helped define early feminist modernity. From the psychological intensity of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" to the utopian vision of Herland and the polemical clarity of Women and Economics, these works combine realism, satire, Gothic unease, social theory, and reformist imagination. Read together, they reveal Gilman's sustained critique of domestic confinement, gendered labor, marriage, motherhood, and the economic structures that shaped women's lives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) wrote from lived experience as well as intellectual conviction. Her struggles with depression, her resistance to the "rest cure," her unconventional personal choices, and her involvement in feminist, socialist, and reform movements all informed her literary project. She understood writing as a tool of analysis and reconstruction, using narrative and argument to expose the cultural assumptions that limited women's autonomy. This collection is essential for readers interested in feminist literature, American intellectual history, and socially engaged fiction. It offers not only canonical texts but also the broader architecture of Gilman's thought, making it invaluable to scholars and general readers alike.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
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Length69 hrs 3 mins
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Publish dateMay 21, 2015
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Table of contents
1The Woman Who Did (Annotated)
26CHAPTER V CONTRASTS
2The Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays
27CHAPTER VI NEW FRIENDS AND OLD
3The Yellow Wallpaper
28CHAPTER VII. SIDE LIGHTS.
4Why I wrote the Yellow Wallpaper (An Article by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1913)
29CHAPTER VIII. A MIXTURE.
5What Diantha Did
30CHAPTER IX. CONSEQUENCES.
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6CHAPTER I. HANDICAPPED
31CHAPTER X. DETERMINATION.
7CHAPTER II. AN UNNATURAL DAUGHTER
32CHAPTER XI. THEREAFTER.
8CHAPTER III. BREAKERS
33CHAPTER XII. ACHIEVEMENTS.
9CHAPTER IV. A CRYING NEED
34Moving the Mountain
10CHAPTER V.
35Preface
11CHAPTER VI. THE CYNOSURE.
36Chapter 1.
12CHAPTER VII. HERESY AND SCHISM.
37Chapter 2.
13CHAPTER VIII.
38Chapter 3
14CHAPTER IX. "SLEEPING IN."
39Chapter 4.
15CHAPTER X. UNION HOUSE.
40Chapter 5.
16CHAPTER XI. THE POWER OF THE SCREW.
41Chapter 6
17CHAPTER XII. LIKE A BANYAN TREE
42Chapter 7
18CHAPTER XIII. ALL THIS.
43Chapter 8
19CHAPTER XIV. AND HEAVEN BESIDE.
44Chapter 9
20The Crux
45Chapter 10
21PREFACE
46Chapter 11
22CHAPTER I THE BACK WAY
47Chapter 12.
23CHAPTER II. BAINVILLE EFFECTS.
48Herland
24CHAPTER III. THE OUTBREAK
49CHAPTER 1. A Not Unnatural Enterprise
25CHAPTER IV TRANSPLANTED
50CHAPTER 2. Rash Advances
WOMEN & ECONOMICSCharlotte Perkins Gilman8h 19m3.9 (1K)$0.99 · $0.00
The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Studies and Thoughts)Charlotte Perkins Gilman18h 38m$0.99 · $0.00
Women and Economics (The Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution) (Annotated)Charlotte Perkins Gilman9h 38m4.1 (3.1K)$2 · $0.00
The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches) (Annotated)Charlotte Perkins Gilman20h 26m$2 · $0.00
The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic Fiction) (Annotated)Charlotte Perkins Gilman19h 6m3.7 (174)$2 · $0.00
The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic) (Annotated)Charlotte Perkins Gilman19h 4m4.0 (42)$2 · $0.00
The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric CultureCharlotte Perkins Gilman5h 12m3.8 (124)$2 · $0.00
De economische toestand der vrouwCharlotte Perkins Gilman9h 31m$2 · $0.00
What Diantha DidCharlotte Perkins Gilman7h 35m3.7 (179)$2 · $0.00
Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and EssaysCharlotte Perkins Gilman70h 20m$1 · $0.00
In This Our World, Suffrage Songs and Verses - A Collection of Poems (Annotated)Charlotte Perkins Gilman2h 9m4.6 (11)$2 · $0.00
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