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Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: Faber Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: Faber Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sylvia Plath
SeriesFaber Stories
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:48
Dimensions(mm): Height 160,Width 110
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780571351732
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 3 January 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It is the kingdom of the frozen will,' comes the reply. 'There is no going back.' Sylvia Plath's strange, dark tale of independence over infanticide, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.

Author Biography

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) 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.