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The bell jar / by Sylvia Plath.

by Plath, Sylvia.

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Faber and Faber, 2005, c1963.

Mentally ill -- Fiction.

Depression, Mental -- Fiction.

Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction.

Women periodical editors -- Fiction.

9780571226160 (2005 Faber and Faber pbk.)

9780571081783 (1966 Faber and Faber trade pbk.)

9780571268863 (2013 50th Anniversary trade pbk.)

9781784042905 (2015 Arcturus Pub. trade pbk.)

9780571081789 (1966 Faber and Faber trade pbk.)

0060133562 (1971 Harper & Row)

0553204521 (1981 Bantam Windstone)

0060174900 (1996 Harper Collins 25th anniversary ed.)

9780571200337 (1999 Faber and Faber pbk.)

9780060837020 (2005 HarperPerennial trade pbk.)

1 v. (various pagings).

First published in 1963 by William Heinemann Limited.

2015 Arcturus Publishing trade paperback edition has an introduction by Brian Busby.

2005 HarperPerennial trade paperback edition includes a foreword by Frances McCullough and a biographical note by Lois Ames.

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 even rational, as probable and accessible an experiece as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.

Psychological fiction.

Autobiographical fiction.

Classic fiction.

Feminist fiction.

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