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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The seminal novel from the iconic writer Sylvia Plath.When Esther Greenwood, a nineteen-year-old college student, lands an internship with a prestigious New York fashion magazine in 1953, she expects to have the time of her life. Instead, she finds herself spiraling into serious depression as she grapples with difficult relationships and societal pressures.Part autobiographical, The Bell Jar is ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    “I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”Having landed a summer internship at the prestigious Ladies’ Day magazine, 19-year-old Esther Greenwood moves to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. What is supposed to be a grand adventure in the big city turns into a waking nightmare, with ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Mid-Century Feminist Classic of Ambition, Alienation, Depression, and Literary Coming of Age

    The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's penetrating account of Esther Greenwood, a gifted young woman whose promising literary future is gradually obscured by depression, social estrangement, and institutional confinement. Written in lucid, ironic, and often startlingly poetic prose, the novel transforms the conventions of the mid-century coming-of-age narrative into a critique of gendered expectation, ... Read more

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  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    **The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work."A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review**Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Ariel

    Poems

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    A brilliant collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath, one of America’s most famous and significant female authors. It is characterized by deep, psychological introspection paired with ambiguous scenes and narratives.This edition restores Plath’s selection and order of poems, eschewing her husband’s revisions in favour of the author’s pure, unmodified vision.Random House of Canada is proud to bring you ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar follows Esther Greenwood, a brilliant college student whose carefully imagined future begins to unravel during the summer of 1953. After earning a coveted guest editorship at a New York women's magazine, Esther finds herself surrounded by fashion, privilege, literary ambition, and the expectations of a society that offers young women sharply defined choices. Instead of ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    Plath's only novel has strong elements of autobiography. It is 1953, and Esther Greenwood has just arrived in New York City: she and eleven others have won a contest, the prize being one month of employment at a famous fashion magazine. But afterwards, depression sets in...The Bell Jar was named to The Guardian's list of The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time. ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    'A literary rite of passage.' The Times'She changed our world.' GuardianEsther is supposed to be having the time of her life. Her internship at a fashion magazine is a whirl of cocktail parties and dinner dates in the shimmering city. But why doesn't she feel anything? Back home in the suburbs, she is trapped inside a suffocating bell jar . She can't write her novel; her boyfriend is a hypocrite; ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The Bell Jar is poet Sylvia Plaths only novel. It was originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas and was published just one month before Plaths suicide. The story follows Esther Greenwood, a young Boston woman, who struggles with mental illness and depression. Sylvia Plath had her own struggles with mental illness and the novel is considered semi-autobiographical. Expertly formatted ... Read more

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  • Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

    and other prose writings

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    I lay there alone in bed, feeling the black shadow creeping up the underside of the world like a flood tide. Nothing held, nothing was left. The silver airplanes and the silver capes all dissolved and vanished, wiped away like the crude drawings of a child in coloured chalk from the colossal blackboard of the dark.The writings in this collection outline Plath's early preoccupation with issues of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Poems of Sylvia Plath

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    ' When I think of Sylvia Plath, I am in awe of her intelligence, her language, her wit, her consonantal music - her sheer gift, and what must have been her drive, as its guardian, possessor, possessee, to realise it. ' Sharon OldsThe Poems of Sylvia Plath is a landmark publication: the definitive edition of the poet's work for scholars, students and general readers.Sylvia Plath's first Collecte... ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD