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The Bell Jar
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Bell Jar
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Sylvia Plath
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:240 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780571081783
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Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Audience | General | Tertiary Education (US: College) | Professional & Vocational | |
Edition |
Main - Re-issue
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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Publication Date |
9 April 2001 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
'This terse account of an American girl's breakdown and treatment gains its considerable power from an objectivity that is extraordinary considering the nature of the material. Sylvia Plath's attention had the quality of ruthlessness and.imagery and rhetoric is disciplined by an unwinking intelligence.' Stephen Wall in the Observer
Author Biography
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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