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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

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1963
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The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel, published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas and drawing on her own life. Esther Greenwood, a gifted college student from Massachusetts, wins a place at a magazine in New York for a summer and finds it far less glamorous than she expected. Back at home, she feels the world closing in, and the book follows her slide into depression and the treatment that follows. Plath writes in a clear, sharp voice that mixes dark humour with sadness, and the novel explores identity, ambition and the limited choices open to young women in the 1950s. It remains a landmark of modern American fiction.

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Sylvia Plath

Published one novel and one collection in her lifetime, and the reputation rests largely on poems assembled after her death. The Bell Jar follows a talented young woman through a summer internship in New York and into a psychiatric ward, and it is funnier than its reputation allows, right up to the point where it is not.

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First published
1963
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
197
Language
English
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