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Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: Faber Stories by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It i ...Show more
Sylvia Plath: Poems by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," ...Show more
Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of the twentieth century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. The poems in this fresh and inviting edition were chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. In my selection, which is roughly chronological ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Fiction | Series: LIBERTY FABRIC COVER
'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol Oates 'A modern classic.' Guardian Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal. Esther's vision of ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the worl ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries 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.'This terse account ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries 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.'It is a fine novel ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and ...Show more
The Bell Jar: The Illustrated Edition by Sylvia Plath
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One of our hand-picked classics that no home should be without, now with Beya Reba's beautifully atmospheric artwork. I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical n ...Show more
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of the ...Show more
The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I - 1940-1956 by Sylvia Plath; Peter K. Steinberg (Editor); Karen Kukil (Editor)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence, most of which has never before been publ ...Show more
Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
Both published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written along with those that went to form Ariel, from the exceptionally creative period that led up to Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Between them they evoke a sense of place and history, mythology both personal ...Show more