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  • Sylvia Plath: A Brief Biography

    by Kate O'Dell ...
    Sylvia Plath is considered one of the most influential female authors of the 20th century. She wrote 'The Bell Jar', as well as multiple poetry collections. Sylvia had struggled with her mental health over the years, eventually committing suicide at age thirty. This ebook is a brief biography, detailing her upbringing, Sylvia's troubled marriage with poet Ted Hughes, and her struggle raise her two ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Mid-Century Feminist Classic of Ambition, Alienation, Depression, and Literary Coming of Age

    The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's penetrating account of Esther Greenwood, a gifted young woman whose promising literary future is gradually obscured by depression, social estrangement, and institutional confinement. Written in lucid, ironic, and often startlingly poetic prose, the novel transforms the conventions of the mid-century coming-of-age narrative into a critique of gendered expectation, ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar follows Esther Greenwood, a brilliant college student whose carefully imagined future begins to unravel during the summer of 1953. After earning a coveted guest editorship at a New York women's magazine, Esther finds herself surrounded by fashion, privilege, literary ambition, and the expectations of a society that offers young women sharply defined choices. Instead of ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    “I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”Having landed a summer internship at the prestigious Ladies’ Day magazine, 19-year-old Esther Greenwood moves to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. What is supposed to be a grand adventure in the big city turns into a waking nightmare, with ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" is a poignant semi-autobiographical novel that deftly navigates the tumultuous waters of mental illness, identity, and societal expectations. Written in a unique stream-of-consciousness style, the narrative centers around Esther Greenwood, a young woman grappling with the oppressive confines of 1950s American society. Plath's vivid imagery and sharp wit evoke a sense ... Read more

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  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The seminal novel from the iconic writer Sylvia Plath.When Esther Greenwood, a nineteen-year-old college student, lands an internship with a prestigious New York fashion magazine in 1953, she expects to have the time of her life. Instead, she finds herself spiraling into serious depression as she grapples with difficult relationships and societal pressures.Part autobiographical, The Bell Jar is ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Loving Sylvia Plath

    A Reclamation

    **A Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, Literary Hub, and BookPage“Difficult, brilliant, intensely personal and dazzlingly illuminating…hands down the most gripping thing I’ve read this year.” —Elizabeth Lowry, Times Literary SupplementA nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.**Sylvia ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Sylvia Plath Reads Her Poetry

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    Narrated by Sylvia Plath ...

    Unabridged

    21 min

    Sylvia Plath born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, MA, was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), and also The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide on February 11, 1963. In ... Read more

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  • Ariel

    Poems

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    A brilliant collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath, one of America’s most famous and significant female authors. It is characterized by deep, psychological introspection paired with ambiguous scenes and narratives.This edition restores Plath’s selection and order of poems, eschewing her husband’s revisions in favour of the author’s pure, unmodified vision.Random House of Canada is proud to bring you ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Sylvia Plath in Context

    Edited by Tracy Brain ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Sylvia Plath in Context brings together an exciting combination of established and emerging thinkers from a range of disciplines. The book reveals Plath's responses to the writers she reads, her interventions in the literary techniques and forms she encounters, and the wide range of cultural, personal, artistic, political, historical and geographical influences that shaped her work. Many of these ... Read more

    $132.99 CAD