The Bell Jar (Everyman's Library)
by:
Sylvia Plath (author)
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963--only a month before the author's suicide--Sylvia Plath's harrowing autobiographical novel traces a young woman's descent into an emotional breakdown. The brilliant and disturbing...
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The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963--only a month before the author's suicide--Sylvia Plath's harrowing autobiographical novel traces a young woman's descent into an emotional breakdown. The brilliant and disturbing story of Esther Greenwood's journey from the glamorous world of magazine publishing in New York to the isolating world of the asylum has become one of the most famous books of the late twentieth century, and still has all its power to shock and move us.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375404634 (0375404635)
Publish date: August 25th 1998
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Adult,
Feminism,
Poetry,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
Ciężki, przytłaczający swoim depresyjnym klimatem "Szklany klosz" jest jedynym dziełem Sylvii Plath, będącym powieścią, a nie tomikiem poezji. Bohaterką książki jest Esther Greenwood, młoda, dziewiętnastoletnia dziewczyna, która zmaga się z depresją.Przez pierwszą połowę książki poznajemy Esther, to...
I read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath to complete my 2015 special reading challenge for a book written by someone under the age thirty when it was written. It is an intense novel and one that seems hellish upon review. I gave this book five stars. It has a sharp hook in the beginning. I could relate...
I read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath to complete my 2015 special reading challenge for a book written by someone under the age thirty when it was written. It is an intense novel and one that seems hellish upon review. I gave this book five stars. It has a sharp hook in the beginning. I could relate...
I read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath to complete my 2015 special reading challenge for a book written by someone under the age thirty when it was written. It is an intense novel and one that seems hellish upon review. I gave this book five stars. It has a sharp hook in the beginning. I could relate...
Esther is a young woman, a high achiever, who is crippled by the number of choices she feels are available to her. She is unable to commit to any single branch of possibility for fear that in specialising she loses the chance to explore other avenues. She admits that given the choice to live in the ...
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