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Book

Novels, stories, & poems

Call Number

  • 818 G487 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2022]

Physical Description

xi, 889 pages ; 21 cm.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Summary

"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.

Contents

  • Short stories
  • Studies in style (1894-95)
  • Selected stories (1980-1916)
  • Herland
  • With her in Ourland
  • In this our world
  • Other poems.
  • Short stories. The yellow wall-paper (manuscript version) ; The yellow wall-paper (1892 published version)
  • Studies in style (1894-95). The misleading of Pendleton Oaks (Rudyard Kipling) ; A day's berryin' (Mary E. Wilkins) ; The 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) ; The unwatched door (Edgar Allan Poe) ; The 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) ; The ending of the first lesson (Unknown) ; My cousin Mary (Unknown)
  • Selected stories (1890-1916). The unexpected ; The giant wistaria ; An extinct angel ; The rocking-chair ; Through this ; The unnatural mother ; According to Solomon ; Two storks ; When I was a witch ; The cottagette ; The boys and the butter ; The widow's might ; Mrs. Beazley's deeds ; Turned ; Old water ; Making a change ; Mrs. Elder's idea ; Freed ; The lady oyster ; Improving on nature ; Their house ; The chair of English ; Bee wise ; If I were a man ; If I were a woman ; Mr. Peebles' heart ; The vintage
  • Herland
  • With her in Ourland
  • In this our world
  • Other poems
  • Chronology.

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