IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
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The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional record of a successful and talented young woman's descent into madness.
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New York City, Adirondacks, Boston, United States, BelsizeShowing 11 featured editions. View all 149 editions?
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2006, Harper Perennial
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- P.S. Edition; 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition (7)
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2003, Perennial Classics
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2003, HarperLargePrint
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The Bell Jar
1996, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper
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The Bell Jar
1981 08, Bantam Books
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- Bantam Windstone edition 23960-0 (29)
0553239600 9780553239607
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1981 08, Bantam Books
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- Bantam Windstone edition (47)
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1976-09, Bantam Books
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- Bantam Edition, 22nd printing
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1970?, Faber & Faber
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- VIAF ID: 194759992 (Work)
- The Bell Jar - Wikipedia
- The 100 best novels: No 85 – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) (The Guardian)
- Dying: An Introduction (The New Yorker)
- The Literary Insights of Sylvia Plath’s College Thesis (The Atlantic)
- Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar still haunts me (The Telegraph)
- Spark Notes: The Bell Jar
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