â I TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND LISTENED TO THE OLD BRAG OF MY HEART. "In looking at the madness of the world and the world of madness forces us to consider the great question posed by all truly realistic fiction: what is reality and how can it be confronted"(New York Times Book Review). 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. 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 experience as going to the movies. "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. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, small names to the front free endpaper. The second edition was publshed in the Heinemann Contemporary Fiction Collection & uses the Authors original pseudonym, Victoria Lucas this was later changed under the guidance of her husband, the Poet Ted Hughes & her mother to her real name, Sylvia Plath in the trade edition published two years later by Faber in 1966 (not published in the US until 1971).įirst edition of the author's classic novel. Plath committed suicide a month after the book was published in the UK in 1963.
Semi autobiographical novel which reveals Plath's own struggle with mental illness - both the author and the protagonist occupy a small area between genius and madness. Some light dusting to rear panel with a fresh diamond white spine with a hint of lightening to the mauve.
The near fine/fine dustwrapper is also crisp and fresh with no tears. Lightest spotting to leading edge o/w fine & appears unread. A near fine copy with clean & fresh boards. The second edition & the only other edition besides the first that bears Plath's pseudonym, Victoria Lucas.
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