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The Bell Jar

By Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath follows Esther Greenwood, a gifted young woman whose promising life is overshadowed by a descent into mental illness. Plath's vivid prose intimately captures Esther's psychological struggles, exploring the pressures faced by women in society and the harrowing experience of mental breakdown. This novel is a poignant, enduring exploration of identity and despair.
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Format: Hardback
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Ideal for readers interested in psychological novels, coming-of-age stories, and classic literature addressing mental health and societal expectations.

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The Bell Jar has become a classic of American literature and has sold more than two million copie in the U.S. An extraordinary work, it chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood--beautiful, brilliant, successful and slowly going under. This gift edition includes a forward by the original editor who reveals the untold story of the book's first publication.

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One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels

"A coming-of-age masterpiece." — Boston Globe

"It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal." — USA Today

Sylvia Plath's masterwork — an acclaimed and enduring novel about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressures

Esther Greenwood is a bright, beautiful, enormously talented young woman, but she's slowly going under — maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her neurosis becomes palpably real, even rational — as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780060174903

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 August 1996

Country: United States

Imprint: HarperCollins

Edition: 25th Anniversary ed.

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 0g

Pages: 320

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Arts & Culture Classic Poetry General Fiction Literary Fiction Non-Fiction Sylvia Plath

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 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.

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