The Bell Jar

Author(s): Sylvia Plath

Fiction

Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable, witty and disturbing, The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel and was originally published under a pseudonym in 1963. What it has to say about what women expect of themselves, and what society expects of women, is as sharply relevant today as it has always been.

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The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical portrait of a young woman struggling with depression as she follows her dreams to becoming a writer: the quintessential coming-of-age novel and a must-read for all teenage girls.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

General Fields

  • : 9780571226160
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 0.169
  • : December 2004
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sylvia Plath
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • : 234
  • : Modern fiction