Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Sylvia Plath

ISBN 10: 0571049893 / ISBN 13: 9780571049899

Published by Faber and Faber, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571049893
• ISBN 13: 9780571049899
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Used; Good

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Synopsis

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.

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.