The bell jar /
Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath.

Description

Main Author

Plath, Sylvia.

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : HarperPerennial, 2006.

Edition

1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe ed.

Subjects

Women college students > Women college students / Suicidal behavior > Women college students / Suicidal behavior / Fiction.
Depression, Mental > Depression, Mental / Fiction.

Summary

This extraordinary work--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.

Physical Description

xvii, 244, 21 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

ISBN

9780061148514
0061148512

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