Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
Faber Stories
$13.59
- Paperback
48 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2019
Summary
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like ‘guilt, and guilt, and guilt’: these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom.
‘But what is the ninth kingdom?’ she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. ‘It is the kingdom of the frozen will,’ comes the reply. ‘There is no going back.’
Sylvia Plath’s strange, dark tale of independence over infanticide, written not long after she hers…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571351732 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571351735 |
| Author: | Sylvia Plath |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 38g |
| Dimensions: | 160mm x 111mm x 3mm |
| Series: | Faber Stories |
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About The Author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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