Every Friday, Marilyn Knapp Litt, who blogs at ClassicKindle.com, brings us her recommendation of a free classic book to discover (or rediscover) on Kindle. Find more of Marilyn’s recommendations at her blog, ClassicKindle.com, a guide to the best free and inexpensive classic literature for the Kindle. You can also get Marilyn’s blog on Kindle and I recommend that you “Like” the Classic Kindle Facebook page as well so you don’t miss anything. Here’s Marilyn’s post:

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is famous as one of the first works of feminist fiction. it is an 1892 novella length work that enjoyed a renaissance in the 70’s when many women writers were rediscovered. Of course as an early movement member, she had not been forgotten; but her short story was not commonly anthologized.

Maybe today with debates about women in the headlines, it is time once again to see what a feminist thought in 1892 about how much say she had.

It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work. When I get really well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now.

I wish I could get well faster.

AND

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. Of course I don’t when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone.

This book is also a psychological thriller crossed with early gothic literature, so it is a thought provoking read. Give it a try as an end to easy summer fiction.

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