The Bell Jar
by:
Sylvia Plath (author)
Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed...
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Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly- written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571226160 (0571226167)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 234
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...
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