The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath ; with an introduction by Diane Wood Middlebrook.
Series: Everyman's Library 212
Publisher: Everyman's Library; Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780375404634
Subjects: Women college students -- Fiction.; Suicidal behavior -- Fiction.; Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
Description: The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature.  Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963--only a month before the author's suicide--Sylvia Plath's harrowing autobiographical novel traces a young woman's descent into an emotional breakdown.  The brilliant and disturbing story of Esther Greenwood's journey from the glamorous world of magazine publishing in New York to the isolating world of the asylum has become one of the most famous books of the late twentieth century, and still has all its power to shock and move us.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xix).