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An edition of The Bell Jar (1963)

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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Subjects
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
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
2006, Harper Perennial
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2003, HarperLargePrint
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2003, Perennial Classics
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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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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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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xix).

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

ID Numbers

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
Library Thing
1512
Goodreads
458288

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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