An edition of The Bell Jar (1963)

The Bell Jar

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An edition of The Bell Jar (1963)

The Bell Jar

1st U.S. edition

by

  • ★★★★ 4.21 ·
  • 29 Ratings
  • 1165 Want to read
  • 20 Currently reading
  • 58 Have read

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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Publisher
Heinemann
Language
English
Pages
258

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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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2006, Harper Perennial
Trade Paperback in English - P.S. Edition; 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition (7)
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2003, Perennial Classics
Paperback in English - 25th Anniversary Edition, 1st Perennial Classics ed. (25)
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2003, HarperLargePrint
Paperback in English - 1st Harper large print ed. (1)
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1996, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper
Hardcover in English - 25th anniversary ed.
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1981 08, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Bantam Windstone edition 23960-0 (29)
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1981 08, Bantam Books
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1976-09, Bantam Books
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1972 November, Bantam Books
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1972 November, Bantam
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1970?, Faber & Faber
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1963, Heinemann
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London, England

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1963

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ4.P717 Be, PS3566.L27 Be
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The Physical Object

Pagination
258 p.
Number of pages
258

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5929419M
LCCN
64054573
OCLC/WorldCat
4843648
Library Thing
1512

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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.
added by Lisa.

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