Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings collects the groundbreaking feminist writer's most important works. Through the haunting psychological horror of The Yellow Wall-Paper, the utopian vision of the all-female society in Herland, and essays on women's economic independence and social reform, Gilman created a body of work that challenged gender roles and patriarchal structures. This collection becomes both literary achievement and political manifesto, proving that Gilman was ahead of her time and that some feminist texts remain urgently relevant.

WHY WE PICKED IT: Because Gilman wrote The Yellow Wall-Paper, the definitive story about women's oppression and madness, and Herland, which imagines a world without men that's peaceful and rational. This essential collection reminds us that Gilman's feminism was radical for 1892, that her economic analysis of women's work was groundbreaking, and that her fiction and essays still speak to contemporary struggles.

DETAILS: • Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Editor: Denise D. Knight • Introduction: Kate Bolick • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Format: Paperback • Publication Date: September 1, 2009 • ISBN: 9780143105855 • Pages: 400 • Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days