IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
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An edition of The Bell Jar
(1963)
The Bell Jar
Bantam edition, 3rd printing
by Sylvia Plath
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An edition of The Bell Jar
(1963)
The Bell Jar
Bantam edition, 3rd printing
by Sylvia Plath
- 16 Ratings
- 731 Want to read
- 15 Currently reading
- 34 Have read
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The Bell Jar is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath's 20th year: about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems--the kind of book Salinger's Franny might have written about herself 10 years later, if she had spent those 10 years in Hell.
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women college students, summer, Classics, Literature, Psychology, Feminism, Novel, Poetry, Mental Health, American, Adult, Fiction, Mental Depression, Suicidal behavior, Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospital patients, Mental illness, Women authors, Treatment, Women periodical editors, College students, Suicide, Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Roman à clef, open_syllabus_project, Women psychotherapy patients, Fiction, psychological, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Young women, fiction, Students, fiction, Children's fiction, Depression, mental, fiction, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Large type books, American literature, Women college students, Interns, Women's periodicals, Electroconvulsive therapy, Sexism, Depression in women, AuthorsPeople
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The Bell Jar
2006, Harper Perennial
Trade Paperback
in English
- P.S. Edition; 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition (7)
0060837020 9780060837020
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The Bell Jar
2003, Perennial Classics
Paperback
in English
- 25th Anniversary Edition, 1st Perennial Classics ed. (25)
0060930187 9780060930189
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The Bell Jar
2003, HarperLargePrint
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in English
- 1st Harper large print ed. (1)
0060573090 9780060573096
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The Bell Jar
1996, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper
Hardcover
in English
- 25th anniversary ed.
0060174900 9780060174903
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The Bell Jar
1981 08, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Bantam Windstone edition (47)
0553278355 9780553278354
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The Bell Jar
1981 08, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Bantam Windstone edition 23960-0 (29)
0553239600 9780553239607
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The Bell Jar
1976-09, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in Spanish
- Bantam Edition, 22nd printing
0553103709 9780553103700
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The Bell Jar
1972 April, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Bantam edition, 3rd printing
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The Bell Jar
1970?, Faber & Faber
Paperback
in English
- 1st Faber paperbacks edition (16)
0571081789 9780571081783
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New York, USA
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The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional record of a successful and talented young woman's descent into madness.
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- VIAF ID: 194759992 (Work)
- The Bell Jar - Wikipedia
- The 100 best novels: No 85 – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) (The Guardian)
- Dying: An Introduction (The New Yorker)
- The Literary Insights of Sylvia Plath’s College Thesis (The Atlantic)
- Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar still haunts me (The Telegraph)
- Spark Notes: The Bell Jar
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| July 1, 2020 | Edited by Mek | rm ocaid |
| February 12, 2020 | Edited by lisaBot | moving edition(s) to primary work |
| March 28, 2019 | Edited by Lisa | Added new cover |
| June 11, 2018 | Edited by Lisa | Edited without comment. |
| May 5, 2010 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Internet Archive item record. |