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An edition of The Bell Jar (1963)

The Bell Jar

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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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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
2016 February 2, HarperAudio
Digital Audiobook in English
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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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The Bell Jar
2003, HarperLargePrint
Paperback in English - 1st Harper large print ed. (1)
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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
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 (47)
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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 Spanish - Bantam Edition, 22nd printing
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The Bell Jar
1972 November, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback in English - Bantam edition, 13th 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
1970?, Faber & Faber
Paperback in English - 1st Faber paperbacks edition (16)
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Maggie Gyllenhaal

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OL26454463M
ISBN 10
0060886641
ISBN 13
9780060886646
OCLC/WorldCat
936695590, 1037238727, 974313656
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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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