num_pages: 234
description: This is Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel, dealing with many of the issues that were important to the author herself, including the female role, American life and mental illness.
language: English
title: The Bell Jar
titlecomplete: The Bell Jar
characters: Joan Gilling, Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard
genres: Fiction, Poetry, Mental Health, Psychology, Literature, Feminism, Classics, Novels, Mental Illness, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 882396
places: New York (State), The United States of America, New York City, New York, Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts
publisher: Faber Penguin