Bibliograph

The bell jar, a novel, Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath

Type

Label

The bell jar, a novel, Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The bell jar

Oclc number

854562123

Responsibility statement

Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath

Series statement

Harper Perennial modern classics

Sub title

a novel

Summary

This novel--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time

Target audience

adult

Classification