The Bell Jar By Sylvia Plath
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 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. Order this Item. Add to Wishlist.
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The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical portrait Palth a young woman struggling with depression as she follows her dreams to becoming a writer: the quintessential coming-of-age novel and a must-read for all teenage here. In she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossusand a novel, The Bell Jar Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from until her death, was published in and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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