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The Bell Jar

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An edition of The Bell Jar (1963)

The Bell Jar

P.S. Edition; 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition (7)

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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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Harper Perennial
Language
English
Pages
288

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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
Trade Paperback in English - P.S. Edition; 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition (7)
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2003, HarperLargePrint
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The Bell Jar
2003, Perennial Classics
Paperback in English - 25th Anniversary Edition, 1st Perennial Classics ed. (25)
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The Bell Jar
1996, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper
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The Bell Jar
1981 08, Bantam Books
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The Bell Jar
1981 08, Bantam Books
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The Bell Jar
1976-09, Bantam Books
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The Bell Jar
1972 November, Bantam
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1972 November, Bantam Books
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1970?, Faber & Faber
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First Sentence

"IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

Edition Notes

USA

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New York, USA
Copyright Date
1998

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813
Library of Congress
PS3566.L27B4

Contributors

Foreword
Frances McCulough
Notes by
Lois Ames

The Physical Object

Format
Trade Paperback
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7282744M
ISBN 10
0060837020
ISBN 13
9780060837020
OCLC/WorldCat
1000046079
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0060837020
Google
cZpR_0kN9gEC
Library Thing
1512
Goodreads
395040
56616095

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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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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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