Spark Notes The Bell Jar
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The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, gorgeous, enormously talented, successful — but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a magazine, her increasingly strained relationships with her mother, and with the boy she dated in college, and eventually, devastatingly, into the madness itself. The reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies.
Such deep penetration into the dark and upsetting corners of the psyche is rare in any novel. It points to the fact that The Bell Jar is a largely autobiographical work about Plath’s own summer of 1953, when she was a guest editor at Mademoiselle and went through a breakdown. It reveals so much about the sources of Sylvia Plath’s own tragedy that its publication was considered a landmark in literature.
“Esther Greenwood’s account of her years in The Bell Jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing … [This] is not a potboiler, nor a series of ungrateful caricatures; it is literature.” -New York Times
This special 25th-anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Frances McCullough,who was the Harper & Row editor for the original edition, about the untold tale of The Bell Jar’s first American publication.Amazon.com Review
Plath was an brilliant poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the tale of a gifted young woman’s mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman’s descent into insanity.
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Waited too long for Amazon to send this book so I agreed up for lost the order. I’ll buy somewhere close to home lacking a month wait.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Sylvia Plath was a mentally sick person who was encouraged by one of her psychiatrists to write. I have seen photographs of her and Ted Hughes, and Sylvia is in an appaling state. I can’t even tell what Sylvia is doing in one of the photographs. It’s sad. I hope that she establish some comfort in writing, but honestly, was this meant to be published?
It’s not a surprise that many readers find this repulsive. English teachers/professors should not require students to read this; it goes against every basic human trend to be pleased and not to be anti-life. I don’t know how else to place this but the best writers aren’t suicides. Don’t read them. Their opus is one long goodbye note.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Product OK condition, but took a while for manner of language. Just arrived today, March 13.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Even though this book is required reading for every independent women out there, doesn’t mean you have to read it (if you’re a man). Unlike Neruda and cummings, this book will not get you laid if a woman sees you reading it. I read this book so take my warning. Really just buy this book and place it in your bookshelf when a girl comes, then give her some vapid comment, like “this book gave me a better perspective on the soul of every woman struggling in a chauvinistic society.” And then read her some Neruda, for godsakes.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I waited for nearly 3 weeks to receive this book. The seller rated the book as very excellent and charged me about 5.00 plus 3.99 for shipping. All together my bill was 9.41; but, 3 weeks later I received a wrinkled covered and bent paged book with a charge of 1.00. The seller didn’t make an apology for the delay nor for the tattered book, and I never did see the missing four dollars. This was the first time I have ever been disappointed with buying used books through Amazon.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5