Library of America #356

Short stories -- Studies in style (1894-95) -- Selected stories (1980-1916) -- Herland -- With her in Ourland -- In this our world -- Other poems

"Library of America presents the fullest selection ever of visionary American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman: two novels, forty-four brilliant short stories, nearly two-hundred poems, and both the published and manuscript versions of the landmark story "The yellow wall-paper." The short fiction presented here showcases Gilman's mastery of ghost stories, allegorical fantasy, and social realism and includes a virtuoso series of stories written in imitation of the most acclaimed authors of her day. The utopian novels "Herland" and "With her in Ourland" -- about a remote and isolated society of women -- are pioneering works of speculative fiction and still-incisive commentaries on the politics of gender. Gilman was known to her contemporaries first and foremost as a poet, and this volume brings together her collection "In this our world" with more than fifty other poems, many written in support of suffrage and other causes."--From book jacket

Short stories.

Yellow wall-paper

(manuscript version) ;

Yellow wall-paper

(1892 published version) --

Studies in style (1894-95).

Misleading of Pendleton Oaks

(Rudyard Kipling) ; A day's berryin'

(Mary E. Wilkins) ;

Mother's prayer

(Olive Schreiner) ;

Clifford's tower

(Nathaniel Hawthorne) ;

Ad'line

(Hamlin Garland) ; The twilight

(Maurice Maeterlinck) ;

Two better than one

(Edward Everett Hale) ;

From "Thurston Gower"

(George Eliot) ;

Five girls

(Louisa May Alcott) ;

Unwatched door

(Edgar Allan Poe) ;

Eating house

(Charles Dickens) ;

One way out

(Henry James) ;

A cabinet meeting

(Edward Bellamy) ;

An unpatented process

(Mark Twain) ;

My landlady's daughter

(Washington Irving) ;

Ending of the first lesson

(Unknown) ;

My cousin Mary

(Unknown) --

Selected stories (1890-1916).

Unexpected ; Giant wistaria ; An extinct angel ; Rocking-chair ; Through this ; Unnatural mother ; According to Solomon ; Two storks ; When I was a witch ; Cottagette ; Boys and the butter ; Widow's might ; Mrs. Beazley's deeds ; Turned ; Old water ; Making a change ; Mrs. Elder's idea ; Freed ; Lady oyster ; Improving on nature ; Their house ; Chair of English ; Bee wise ; If I were a man ; If I were a woman ; Mr. Peebles' heart ; Vintage -- Herland -- With her in Ourland -- In this our world --

Other poems