The Journals of Sylvia Plath
$37.77
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
11 May 1998
Summary
The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America’s most acclaimed poets.
Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385493918 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385493916 |
| Author: | Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 1998 |
| Weight: | 329g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 132mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Sylvia Plath
SYLVIA PLATH was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. She began publishing poems and stories at a young age and by the time she entered Smith College had won several poetry prizes. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Cambridge, England, and married British poet Ted Hughes in London in 1956. The young couple moved to the States, where Plath became an instructor at Smith College. Later, they moved back to England, where Plath continued writing poetry and wrote her novel, The Bell Jar, which was first published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in England in 1963. On February 11, 1963, Plath committed suicide. Her Collected Poems, published posthumously in 1981, won the Pulitzer Prize.
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