Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous When I Was a Witch is a collection of four classic short stories by pioneer feminist, literary entrepreneur and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

The four fantastic tales, which are reminiscent of Haruki Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes, include: When I Was a Witch, If I Were a Man, The Yellow Wallpaper and Turned. Each of the four stories takes a simple concept of female life, and...