Sylvia Plath
Born
in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, The United States
October 27, 1932
Died
February 11, 1963
Genre
Influences
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The Bell Jar
1264 editions
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published
1963
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Ariel
140 editions
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published
1965
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The Collected Poems
63 editions
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published
1981
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
by
56 editions
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published
2000
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The Colossus and Other Poems
161 editions
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published
1960
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Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
31 editions
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published
2019
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Ariel: The Restored Edition
by
20 editions
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published
2004
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
16 editions
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published
1977
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Letters Home
7 editions
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published
1975
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Selected Poems
23 editions
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published
1981
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
Polls
December 2014 New School Classics Poll
Which book would you like to read for our December 2014 New School Classics group read?
Which book would you like to read for our December 2014 New School Classics group read?
1963, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 288 pages
1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages
1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages
1902, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, 224 pages
1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages
1944, The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, 314 pages
1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages
1940, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages
1918, My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 232 pages
1990, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, 413 pages
1940, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 320 pages
1961, A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul, 623 pages
1992, Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth, 630 pages
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