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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar Cover

ISBN13: 9780060573096
ISBN10: 0060573090
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Publisher Comments:

The Bell Jar chronicles the breakdown of the brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful Esther Greenwood, a woman slowly going under — maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's demise with such intensity that the character's insanity becomes completely real, even rational — as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.

Synopsis:

"The Bell Jar chronicles the demise of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. This deep penetration into the dark, harrowing psyche is a haunting American classic. "Included in Super Bestseller and Full Standing Order Plans.

About the Author

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel and The Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of Ariel was published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780060573096
Subtitle:
Foreword:
McCullough, Frances Monson
Author:
PLATH, SYLVIA
Author:
by Sylvia Plath
Notes:

Ames, Lois

Publisher:
HarperLargePrint
Location:
New York
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Large type books
Subject:
Depression, mental
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Suicidal behavior
Subject:
Women college students
Subject:
Autobiographical fiction
Copyright:
Edition Number:
Large print ed.
Large Print:
Yes
Series Volume:
no. 91-044
Publication Date:
20031001
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
8.96x6.06x1.07 in. 1.22 lbs.

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