The Yellow Wallpaper A Clearview Large Print Edition
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
10.10.2026
Verlag
W. Frederick ZimmermanSeitenzahl
52
Maße (L/B/H)
25,4/17,8/0,6 cm
Gewicht
313 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-60888-824-5
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, originally published 1892. Gilman renders the narrator's deteriorating perception as much in the rhythm of her sentences as in their content - a technical achievement that disappears at skimming speed. Modern readers find a story whose horror is bureaucratic and domestic, and prose calibrated so the unraveling cannot be looked away from. This Clearview Editions hardcover is built on a production standard that significantly exceeds the industry norm for large-print publishing. The body text is set at 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next on 27-point leading, 1.5 line spacing --- the minimum WCAG 2.2 Level AAA Success Criterion 1.4.8 sets for a block of text, and the figure UKAAF's large-print guidance gives as well. The leading North American large-print hardcover imprints typically set their body text at 16 point, and most large-print trade paperbacks release at 14 to 16 point. At 18 point, Clearview Editions offers text that is measurably larger than every other major large-print publisher, specifically for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, or any visual condition that makes standard trade print frustrating or impossible to read for long stretches. The trim size is equally generous. Clearview Editions is printed on a 7x10-inch page, substantially larger than the 6x9 hardcover that is standard in the large-print industry and roughly 50 percent larger by area than the 5x8 trade paperback trim most legacy large-print paperback imprints use. The extra page area is deliberate: it allows the 18-point body to set at the 50-to-55 character line length that reading-fatigue research identifies as optimal, without the narrow text columns and cramped margins that plague smaller-trim large-print books. Wide interior margins keep the binding from swallowing the gutter text and leave the thumb margins comfortable for older hands gripping a heavier hardcover. The body font, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, was developed by the Braille Institute of America specifically to maximize letter recognition for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, and visual processing differences. It distinguishes between commonly-confused letter pairs - lowercase l versus uppercase I, the digit 0 versus uppercase O, b versus d, p versus q - using distinctive shape features that preserve readability even under eye strain. Text is set ragged right with no word division: WCAG 2.2 1.4.8 and UKAAF both advise against justifying large-print text, since the uneven word spacing it creates is harder to track, and against breaking a word across a line ending, since the reader then has to reassemble it. Every page is protected against widowed and orphaned lines, and all illustrations are reproduced in 300-DPI grayscale on coated white text stock. The text of this edition is faithfully preserved from the original public-domain source with the full structural integrity of parts and chapters as the author intended, and every part and chapter is bookmarked in the PDF outline for readers using digital reading devices or reading software. Clearview Editions is an imprint of Nimble Books LLC, dedicated to bringing the canon of public-domain literature to low-vision readers and to anyone who has ever found standard trade-paperback print too small, too cramped, or too tiring for the kind of sustained reading a great book deserves. Clarity first. Before setting this edition, Clearview scanned 29,475,453 Amazon reviews and found 22,591 that discuss large-print books specifically; among the 6,659 negative reviews in that set, the single most common complaint was that a "large print" edition wasn't meaningfully larger than ordinary type.
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