Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings (FF Classics) - Softcover

Plath, Sylvia

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9780571209842: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings (FF Classics)

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ISBN 10: 057120984X ISBN 13: 9780571209842

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2001

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From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional storywriter.

When the first edition of Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams appeared, Margaret Walters said of it in the Guardian, 'the book does offer . . . new insight into her development as a writer, suggesting how even her mistakes and dead ends contributed to the formation of an original and pathfinding talent'.

This second edition contains the thirteen stories included in the first edition together with five pieces of her journalism, as well as a few fragments from her journal; and a further nine stories selected from the Indiana archive.

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About the Author:

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.

Synopsis:

This edition contains the 13 stories included in the first, together with five pieces of Plath's journalism as well as a few fragments from her journal, and a further nine stories selected from the Indiana Archive.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.