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The Bell Jar

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Bell Jar
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sylvia Plath
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571081783
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Edition Main - Re-issue

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 9 April 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.