Chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood who is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented and successful but who has major mental-health issues. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational.
year: 1996, 1971, 2001, 2005, 1998, 2006, 1981, 1989, 1999, 1992, 1972
call number/section: 1000
subjects: depression, mental, fiction, women college students, suicidal behavior, depression (psychology), college students, suicide, mental illness, sylvia plath, women writers, mental breakdowns, psychological problems, english literature classics, young women, suicidal behavior, psychological aspects, autobiographical fiction, suicide-fiction, depression, metal
Editions
Plath, Sylvia
HarperCollins (1996)
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
Schools: 15
Plath, Sylvia
Harper & Row (1971)
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
Schools: 5
Plath, Sylvia
Perennial Classics (Harper-Collins) (2001)
Chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood who is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented and successful but who has major mental-health issues. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational.
Schools: 0
Plath, Sylvia
Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2005)
An autobiographical novel of Esther Greenwood, a brilliant and talented young woman, who goes to New York and begins a descent into mental illness.
Schools: 27
Plath, Sylvia
Distributed by Random House (1998)
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented, and successful young woman.
Schools: 3
Plath, Sylvia
Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2006)
An autobiographical novel which chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a gifted young woman working for the summer as a junior editor at a New York magazine in the early 1950s.
Schools: 2
Plath, Sylvia
Bantam Books (1981)
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
Schools: 1
Plath, Sylvia
Bantam Books (1989)
An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attmpt. The Bell Jar is more that a confessional novel. It is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously.
Schools: 1
Plath, Sylvia
HarperClassics (1999)
Autobiographical novel about an ambitious and brilliant young woman's search for values, and her eventual breakdown.
Schools: 1
Wagner-Martin, Linda
Twayne (1992)
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
Schools: 0
Plath, Sylvia
Bantam Books (1972)
Esther Greenwood, a talented and successful writer, finally succumbs to madness when the world around her begins to falter.
Schools: 0
Schools: 0
Wagner-Martin, Linda
Twayne (1992)
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
Schools: 0
Plath, Sylvia
Schools: 0
Plath, Sylvia
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
Schools: 1