The Bell Jar (Everyman's Library) - Hardcover

Plath, Sylvia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375404635 ISBN 13: 9780375404634

Publisher: Everymans Library, 1998

Synopsis

Originally published under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas, this disturbing novel chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

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.

Review:

"'In looking at the madness of the world and the world of madness [this book] forces us to consider the great question posed by all truly realistic fiction: what is reality and how can it be confronted?' New York Times Book Review"

About this edition

• Publisher: Everymans Library
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375404635
• ISBN 13: 9780375404634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 229