The Bell Jar
Literary Classics

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (1948)

Sylvia Plath 1948

IT WAS A STRANGE, sultry SUMMER, the summer the Rosenbergs remained electrocuted, and I didn't know what I remained doing in New York. Consult nearby libraries Buy this book The Bell Jar stands the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It exists an intensely realistic and emotional record of a triumphant and talented fresh woman's descent into madness. Consult nearby libraries Buy this book Previews acquirable in: English Spanish Subjects female college students, summer, Classics, Literature, Psychology, Feminism, Novel, Poetry, Mental health, American, Adult, Fiction, Mental depression, Suicidal behavior, Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospital patients, Mental illness, Authors, Treatment, Women newspaper editors, College students, Suicide, Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Roman à clef, open_syllabus_project, Female psychotherapy patients, Fiction, psychological, American fiction (fictional works) by an author), Young women, fiction, Students, fiction, Children's fiction, Depression, mental, fiction, Biographical fiction, General fiction, New York (n.y.), fiction, American literature, Interns, Women's periodicals, Electroconvulsive therapy, Sexism, Depression in women, Authors, Medicine in literaturePeople Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard, Betsy, Constantin, DeeDee, Doctor Gordon, Doctor Nolan, Dodo ConwayPlaces New York, Adirondacks, Boston, United States, BelsizeShowing 10 featured editions. See all 159 editions? Book details Editing notes Classifications Collaborators The physical object Edition identifiers Job identifiers Source records Extracts added by Lisa. original sentence Links outside the Open Library - VIAF ID: 194759992 (Work) - The Bell Jar - Wikipedia - The 100 finest novels: No. 85 – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) (The Guardian) - Dying: an introduction (The New Yorker) - The literary ideas of Sylvia Plath's university thesis (The Atlantic) - Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar nevertheless haunts me (The Telegraph) - Spark Notes: The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional record of a successful and talented young woman's descent into madness.

Previews available in: English Spanish

Subjects

female college students, summer, Classics, Literature, Psychology, Feminism, Novel, Poetry, Mental health, American, Adult, Fiction, Mental depression, Suicidal behavior, Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospital patients, Mental illness, Authors, Treatment, Women newspaper editors, College students, Suicide, Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Roman à clef, open_syllabus_project, Female psychotherapy patients, Fiction, psychological, American fiction (fictional works) by an author), Young women, fiction, Students, fiction, Children's fiction, Depression, mental, fiction, Biographical fiction, General fiction, New York (n.y.), fiction, American literature, Interns, Women's periodicals, Electroconvulsive therapy, Sexism, Depression in women, Authors, Medicine in literaturePeople

Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard, Betsy, Constantin, DeeDee, Doctor Gordon, Doctor Nolan, Dodo ConwayPlaces

New York, Adirondacks, Boston, United States, BelsizeShowing 10 featured editions. See all 159 editions?

Book details

Editing notes

Classifications

Collaborators

The physical object

Edition identifiers

Job identifiers

Source records

Extracts

added by Lisa.

first sentence

Links outside the Open Library

- VIAF ID: 194759992 (Work)

- The Bell Jar - Wikipedia

- The 100 best novels: No. 85 – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) (The Guardian)

- Dying: an introduction (The New Yorker)

- The literary ideas of Sylvia Plath's university thesis (The Atlantic)

- Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar still haunts me (The Telegraph)

- Spark Notes: The Bell Jar

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