An edition of The Bell Jar (1963)

The Bell Jar

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An edition of The Bell Jar (1963)

The Bell Jar

First Perennial Classics edition

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  • ★★★★ 4.21 ·
  • 29 Ratings
  • 1158 Want to read
  • 20 Currently reading
  • 58 Have read

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
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Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard, Betsy, Constantin, DeeDee, Doctor Gordon, Doctor Nolan, Dodo Conway
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New York City, Adirondacks, Boston, United States, Belsize
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1953, 1950s

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2006, Harper Perennial
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2003, Perennial Classics
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2003, HarperLargePrint
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The Bell Jar
2000, Perennial Classics
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1996, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper
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1981 08, Bantam Books
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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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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."

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US edition

Copyright Date
1971

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7284977M
ISBN 10
0060930187
ISBN 13
9780060930189
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0060930187
amazon.de_asin
0060930187
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1512
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410276

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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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