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An edition of The Bell Jar (1948)

The Bell Jar

25th anniversary ed.

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  • 4.2 (70 ratings)
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  • 145 Have read
  • 1 Stopped reading

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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HarperCollins Publishers, Harper
Language
English
Pages
296

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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 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
2003, Perennial Classics
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2003, HarperLargePrint
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The Bell Jar
1996, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper
Hardcover in English - 25th anniversary ed.
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The Bell Jar
1981 08, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Bantam Windstone edition 23960-0 (29)
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The Bell Jar
1976-09, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Bantam Edition, 22nd printing
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The Bell Jar
1972 November, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 13th printing
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The Bell Jar
1972 November, Bantam
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The Bell Jar
1970?, Faber & Faber
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The Bell Jar
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

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
1996

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3566.L27 B4 1996b, PS3566.L27.B4 1996, PS3566.L27 B4 2013

Contributors

Foreword
Frances McCullough
Notes by
Lois Ames

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xviii, 296 p. :
Number of pages
296

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL614704M
ISBN 10
0060174900
ISBN 13
9780060174903
LCCN
96211742
OCLC/WorldCat
701211909, 852543159
Google
DUO1QgAACAAJ
LibraryThing
1512
Goodreads
56616144

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1865528W
LibraryThing
1512
Wikidata
Q1213085

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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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