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An edition of The Bell Jar (1948)

The Bell Jar

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The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963--only a month before the author's suicide--Sylvia Plath's harrowing autobiographical novel traces a young woman's descent into an emotional breakdown. The brilliant and disturbing story of Esther Greenwood's journey from the glamorous world of magazine publishing in New York to the isolating world of the asylum has become one of the most famous books of the late twentieth century, and still has all its power to shock and move us.

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Publisher
Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
229

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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 American literature Interns Women's periodicals Electroconvulsive therapy Sexism Depression in women Authors Medicine in Literature

People

Esther Greenwood Buddy Willard Betsy Constantin DeeDee Doctor Gordon Doctor Nolan Dodo Conway

Places

New York City Adirondacks Boston United States Belsize

Times

1953 1950s

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The Bell Jar
1998, Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf
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1996, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper
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1981 08, Bantam Books
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1976-09, Bantam Books
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1972 November, Bantam
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1972 November, Bantam Books
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1970?, Faber & Faber
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1964-01-01, William Heinemann 1964
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The Bell Jar by Plath, Sylvia Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2013) Paperback
1948, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xix).

Published in
New York, USA
Series
Everyman's Library 212

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3566.L27 B4 1998
lccn_permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/98027309

Contributors

Introduction
Diane Wood Middlebrook

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxv, 229 p. ;
Number of pages
229

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL366824M
ISBN 10
0375404635
ISBN 13
9780375404634
LCCN
98027309
OCLC/WorldCat
39235796
amazon.co.uk_asin
0375404635
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0375404635
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0375404635
LibraryThing
1512
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458288

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OL1865528W

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Work Description

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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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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