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Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar. "Teeth like tombstones," I said, "Do you see nothing eerie in that?" She shook her head. I wondered, had she read the book. With a shy look, she said, "I liked Esther:" I was impressed. But why had she not picked up upon the rest, the atmosphere of sick decay, the dark ceiling without a star?
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed.
- Sylvia Plath, Frances Monson McCullough, Lois Ames
- 1963
This work (The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath) is free of known copyright restrictions. The Librivox recordings are also free of known copyright restrictions. All other material in the front and back matter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license unless otherwise noted. Cover image by Mysticsartdesign on Pixabay
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Oct 21, 2021 · “The Bell Jar” is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath’s 20th year: about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. It is a fine novel, as bitter and...
May 3, 2024 · Plath committed suicide one month after the publication of The Bell Jar, her only novel. Summary. The Bell Jar details the life of Esther Greenwood, a college student who dreams of becoming a poet.
- Sylvia Plath, Frances Monson McCullough, Lois Ames
- 1963
Plath won great acclaim for her first book of poetry, The Colossus, in 1959, and published the pseudonymous The Bell Jar in 1963 to make money. Plath had suffered from mental illness throughout her life and she fell into deep depression as her marriage dissolved, eventually committing suicide in 1963.
Feb 9, 2023 · Plath knew and loved the novels of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, as well as the poetry of T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats. These modernist writers left their mark upon The Bell Jar, which, like The Waste Land and Dubliners, contains images of paralysis, decay, death-in-life, and urban desolation.
