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The Bell Jar

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An edition of The Bell Jar (1963)

The Bell Jar

1st Harper large print ed. (1)

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  • ★★★★ 4.21 ·
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  • 20 Currently reading
  • 58 Have read

The Bell Jar chronicles the breakdown of the brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful Esther Greenwood, a woman slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's demise with such intensity that the character's insanity becomes completely real, 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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Language
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Pages
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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
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The Bell Jar
2003, HarperLargePrint
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2003, Perennial Classics
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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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1981 08, Bantam Books
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The Bell Jar
1976-09, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in Spanish - Bantam Edition, 22nd printing
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The Bell Jar
1972 November, Bantam Books
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1972 November, Bantam
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The Bell Jar
1970?, Faber & Faber
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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Originally published in the U.S.: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
US/CAN edition

Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
2000 (from back cover)

Contributors

Foreword
Frances McCullough
Notes by
Lois Ames

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xx, 391 p. (large print) :
Number of pages
391

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22990333M
ISBN 10
0060573090
ISBN 13
9780060573096
OCLC/WorldCat
317798553, 1037228204
Alibris ID
9780060573096
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1512
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907483

Work Description

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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