The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A woman confined for her health begins to see something moving behind the wallpaper.

Length: 6,078 words
At 250 WPM: 25 min
Chapters: 5

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Full public-domain text available to read now. Full text from a Project Gutenberg public-domain English edition. Source

What to expect

You’ll open on the full text with your place highlighted. Use the bottom hold button to start one-word focus mode.

Readable sessions

About 1,216 words per section on average, with chapter navigation when you want to jump around.

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Release to pause, review the surrounding text, adjust your pace, or switch chapters.

Full-book reading estimate

Traditional pace

28 min

225 WPM

Focused RSVP

18 min

350 WPM

Fast experiment

13 min

500 WPM

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