IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
An edition of The Bell Jar
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The Bell Jar
25th anniversary ed.
by Sylvia Plath
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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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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
Paperback
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 23960-0 (29)
0553239600 9780553239607
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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
1976-09, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in Spanish
- Bantam Edition, 22nd printing
0553103709 9780553103700
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The Bell Jar
1970?, Faber & Faber
Paperback
in English
- 1st Faber paperbacks edition (16)
0571081789 9780571081783
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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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