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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Sylvia Plath’s Sylvia Plath’s Mushrooms, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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A novel, that was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. It is partially based on the author’s own life and descent into mental illness. It presents a…
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Ted Hughes’s classic selection of Sylvia Plath’s poetry provides the perfect introduction to a major body of work in twentieth-century poetry. Hughes draws upon the collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing…
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Faber 90th Anniversary edition of Plath’s best-known collection.
Sylvia Plath’s dark, perceptive, and groundbreaking novel, covered in a fabric from the Liberty archive.
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These poems are, in Robert Lowells’ words, events rather than the record of events, and as such, represent the triumph of the poet’s romantic ambition.
Possessing one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry, Plath published only one volume of verse and a single novel.
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When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in…
Contains many of Sylvia Plath’s best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. This title includes poems such as ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Edge’, ‘Daddy’…
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Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other people’s dreams. An office assistant in a hospital pursues…
Abigail George
The stories in this book feature women who were key literary figures across the ages who have always had rules for their life in the face of liberation, submission and…
Frieda Hughes
In 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: ‘I feel I’m developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of.
Emily Van Duyne
A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.
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Julia Gordon-Bramer
Explores Sylvia Plath's enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963
With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath provides the most comprehensive collection of contemporary scholarship on Plath's work.
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Prof Heather Clark
In this incisive introduction, leading Plath scholar Heather Clark explores the intersections between Plath's life and work while discussing key themes in Plath's poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel, her…
Carl Rollyson
Providing new angles and perspectives on the life of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poets, Sylvia Plath Day by Day offers a comprehensive image of its enigmatic subject.
Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm’s revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.
This volume contains all Sylvia Plath’s mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.
Jennifer D. Ryan-Bryant
Turning the Table offers a new resource to Hughes and Plath scholars studying the poets' archival materials and compositional processes. The book traces the theory of the ars poetica that…
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Elisabeth Bronfen
Elisabeth Bronfen examines Sylvia Plath’s poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, her shorter fiction as well as her autobiographical texts, in the context of the resilient Plath-Legend that has grown…
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Heather Clark
The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.
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Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with…
For use in schools and libraries only. Brings together a collection of all Plath’s mature poetry, published and unpublished, together with a large selection of her juvenile works.
Taitulo orginal: Mary Ventura and the ninth kingdom.
Sylvia Plath, una de las grandes poetas del siglo XX, llega a la coleccion Poesia Portatil.
Sylvia Plath es una de las poetas mas admiradas del siglo XX. Sus versos…
""Step into the intellectual battleground of the 1920s with Aldous Huxley's gripping masterpiece, 'Point Counter Point.' In this riveting novel, Huxley masterfully weaves a tapestry of human relationships, moral dilemmas…
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a captivating and introspective novel that falls into the genre of contemporary literature. It is a semi-autobiographical work that explores themes of mental…
A collection of more than 350 letters written by Sylvia Plath.
First published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water is now reissued, along with Winter Trees, with a Faber typographical cover.
[T]the first volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Sylvia Plath–most never before seen … [which includes] this prolific writer’s correspondence with more than 120 people, including…
A scintillating and poignant autobiography in letters… . Her letters blaze with fresh and stunning revelations, with more to come.–Booklist on The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 1
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The Bell Jar has become a classic of American literature and has sold more than two million copie in the U.S. An extraordinary work, it chronicles the crackup of Esther…
This facsimile edition of Plath’s posthumous volume of poetry restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement as she left it at the point of her death, and includes…
This extraordinary work–echoing Plath’s own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s–chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and…
This all-new edition of Sylvia Plath’s shattering final poems–with a foreword by Robert Lowell–will appear during National Poetry Month.
What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination… . If I sit still and don’t do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum…
A complete collection of Sylvia Plath’s poetry.
Includes interviews, features, and other extras.
Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Faber and Faber Ltd –Copyright page.
With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as The Beekeeper’s Daughter,The Disquieting…
A collection that outlines the author’s early preoccupation with issues of mental illness, creativity and femininity, all of which would become recurrent themes in her later work. It contains the…
A new edition of Sylvia Plath’s first published volume of poetry.
Sylvia Plath’s timeless children’s stories in a delightful edition set in a clear font for younger readers, with wickedly captivating illustrations from David Roberts.
First published posthumously in 1971, Winter Trees is now reissued, along with Crossing the Water, with a Faber typographical cover.
The second, and final, volume of this landmark edition of Sylvia Plath’s correspondence - now in paperback.
