- women college students, summer, Classics, Literature
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional record of a successful and talented young woman's descent into madness.
- Suicide or self-harm
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Earnest, grave, prestige and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Sylvia Plath
- First published
- February 28, 2006
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- הקיבוץ הארצי השומר הצעיר, Xin yü chu ban she, Random House
- Editions
- 177
- Language
- rum, cat, dan, English
- ISBN
- 9798847857741
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 145 have read it and 2,285 want to.
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for *The Colossus and Other Poems* (1960), *Ariel* (1965), and *The Bell Jar* (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her death. *The Collected Poems* was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Smith College and Newham College, Cambridge, Plath met the poet Ted Hughs, whom she married in 1956. T
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
The diary of a young girl 199867% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Flowers for Algernon 196667% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemplative.
Never Let Me Go 200566% alikeBoth grave, contemplative, earnest.
The Catcher in the Rye 194566% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, character-led.
Wuthering Heights 184666% alikeBoth earnest, grave, prestige.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 201966% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemplative; this one is more formally daring.
The Secret History 199265% alikeBoth grave, bleak.
The Old Man and the Sea 195264% alikeBoth earnest, grave, prestige.
Death of a Salesman 198583% alikeFilm · Both prestige, earnest, contemplative.
The Nest 202082% alikeFilm · Both earnest, grave, prestige.