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The Bell Jar Book

Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly- written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity.Read More

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  • Foyles

    I was supposed to be having the time of my life.When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into serious depression as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take her aspirations seriously.The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The novel is partially based on Plath's own life and descent into mental illness, and has become a modern classic.

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    Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades boyfriend looks career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable witty and disturbing The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel and was originally published under a pseudonym in 1963. What it has to say about what women expect of themselves and what society expects of women is as sharply relevant today as it has always been.

  • BookDepository

    The Bell Jar : Paperback : Faber & Faber : 9780571226160 : : 02 Jun 2005 : I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer.

  • 0571226167
  • 9780571226160
  • Sylvia Plath
  • 2 June 2005
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 234
  • New edition
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