num_pages: 257
description: The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boudaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.
language: English
title: The Bell Jar
titlecomplete: The Bell Jar
characters: Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard, Joan Gilling
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Mental Health, Psychology, Mental Illness, Feminism, Literature, Poetry, Novels
ratings_count: 882322
places: New York City, New York, New York (State), Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, The United States of America
publisher: Faber and Faber