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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(1963)
Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
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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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women college students, summer, Classics, Literature, Psychology, Feminism, Novel, Poetry, Mental Health, American, Adult, Fiction, Mental Depression, Suicidal behavior, Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospital patients, Mental illness, Women authors, Treatment, Women periodical editors, College students, Suicide, Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Roman à clef, open_syllabus_project, Women psychotherapy patients, Fiction, psychological, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Young women, fiction, Students, fiction, Children's fiction, Depression, mental, fiction, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, American literature, Interns, Women's periodicals, Electroconvulsive therapy, Sexism, Depression in women, AuthorsPeople
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Campana de Cristal / the Bell Jar
2020, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
in Spanish
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Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: Sylvia Plath CHRISTMAS EDITION
2018, Independently Published
in English
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Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath Tribute EDITION
2018, Independently Published
in English
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La campana de cristal
2015 April, Edhasa
Paperback
in Spanish
- Primera edición en Argentina
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The Bell Jar
2014 January, HarperPerennial Classics
Epub
in English
- EPub Edition
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The Bell Jar
2009 November 3, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
- first Olive Edition
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The Bell Jar
2008, Faber & Faber
Epub
in English
- 50th Anniversary Edition
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Bell jar
Aug 01, 2007, the bell jar of Phoenix Publishing Media Group. Y
paperback
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The Bell Jar
2006, Harper Perennial
Trade Paperback
in English
- P.S. Edition; 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition (7)
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The Bell Jar
2006, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Trade Paperback
in English
- First Harper Perennial Modern Classics Deluxe Edition
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The Bell Jar
2006 February 28, Caedmon
Audio CD
in English
- Unabridged edition
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2005 August 2, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
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The Bell Jar
2003, HarperLargePrint
Paperback
in English
- 1st Harper large print ed. (1)
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The Bell Jar
2003, Perennial Classics
Paperback
in English
- 25th Anniversary Edition, 1st Perennial Classics ed. (25)
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The Bell Jar
2003 September 30, Caedmon
Audio Cassette
in English
- Unabridged edition
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2003-09-30, Caedmon
Audio cassette
in English
- Unabridged edition
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The Bell Jar LP
September 23, 2003, HarperCollins
Paperback
in English
- Lrg edition
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The Bell Jar
2000, Perennial Classics
Paperback
in English
- First Perennial Classics edition
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The Bell Jar
2000 March, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Library Binding
in English
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The Bell Jar: A Novel
1999, Viking Penguin
Paperback
in English
- New edition
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1998, Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover
in English
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1997 January 1, Caedmon
Audio cassette
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1996, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper
Hardcover
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La cloche de détresse
1988 January 14, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback
in French
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1981 08, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
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1981 08, Bantam Books
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1976-09, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
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- Bantam Edition, 22nd printing
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1972 April, Bantam Books
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1971, Faber and Faber, Harper & Row
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Book Details
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Links outside Open Library
- 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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