The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

REPRINT KINDLE BOOK 1. THE BELL JAR A realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath. It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plaths voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal. USA Today The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: young, brilliant, beautiful, and enormously talented, but slowly going undermaybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esthers breakdown with such intensity that Esthers neurosis becomes completely understandable and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such thorough exploration of the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche - and the profound collective loneliness that modern society has yet to find a solution for - is an extraordinary accomplishment, and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic. 2. ARIEL THE RESTORED EDITION Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry Ariel in 1965, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement of the poems Sylvia Plath left at the point of her death. In addition to the facsimile pages of Sylvia Plath #39;s manuscript, this edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem #39;Ariel #39; in order to offer a sense of Plath #39;s creative process, as well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the manuscript #39;s poems, including #39;Daddy #39; and #39;Lady Lazarus #39; In her insightful foreword to this volume, Frieda Hughes, Sylvia Plath #39;s daughter, explains the reasons for the differences between the previously published edition of Ariel as edited by her father, Ted Hughes, and her mother #39;s original version published here. With this publication, Sylvia Plath #39;s legacy and vision will be reevaluated in the light of her original working draft.