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A Special Paperback Edition to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Sylvia Plath's Remarkable Novel

Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity

Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational--as accessible an experience as going...

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 penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.

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Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imagination. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.

»Diese Ariel-Ausgabe folgt genau dem letzten, von meiner Mutter, Sylvia Plath, hinterlassenen Manuskript«, schreibt Frieda Hughes in ihrem Vorwort. »Als meine Mutter am 11. Februar 1963 Selbstmord beging, hinterließ sie auf ihrem Schreibtisch einen schwarzen Klemmhefter, darin ein Manuskript mit vierzig Gedichten.« Für den Druck jedoch veränderte Ted Hughes, ihr Mann, von dem sie sich getrennt hatte, die ursprüngliche Zusammenstellung. Ariel wurde zu einem der berühmtesten und erfolgreichsten Gedichtbände der letzten fünfzig Jahre. Erst 2004, nach dem Tod von Ted...

Sylvia Plath's correspondence, addressed chiefly to her mother, from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s up to her suicide in London in February 1963. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, these letters also hint at her potential for deep despair.