The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a roman à clef because the protagonist's …
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The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a roman à clef because the protagonist's descent into mental illness parallels Plath's own experiences with what may have been clinical depression or bipolar II disorder. Plath died by suicide a month after its first United Kingdom publication. The novel was published under Plath's name for the first time in 1967 and was not published in the United States until 1971, in accordance with the wishes of both Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, and her mother. The novel has been translated into nearly a dozen languages.
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- BNF ID:
- 123417913
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The Bell Jar
Paperback, 258 pages
English language
Published June 28, 1974 by Faber & Faber.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-571-08178-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 823691394
The Bell Jar
Trade Paperback, 288 pages
English language
Published June 29, 2006 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-114851-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 74670037
The Bell Jar
paperback, 240 pages
English language
Published Jan. 3, 2013 by Faber & Faber.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-571-26886-3Copied ISBN!
La cloche de détresse
Mass Market Paperback, 270 pages
French language
Published June 29, 1993 by Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-071218-2Copied ISBN!
Glasklokken
Epub
Danish language
Published June 29, 2016 by Gyldendal.
- ISBN:
- 978-87-02-15437-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 940522404
The Bell Jar
English language
Published June 29, 2009
- ISBN:
- 978-0-571-24564-2Copied ISBN!
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