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The Bell Jar

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Bell Jar
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sylvia Plath
SeriesFF Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 111
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571200337
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General
Edition Export - Airside ed

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 5 April 1999
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.imagery and rhetoric is disciplined by an unwinking intelligence.' Stephen Wall, ObserverThe Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.

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.