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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100385493916

ISBN-139780385493918

eBay Product ID (ePID)219653

Product Key Features

Book TitleJournals of Sylvia Plath

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicDiaries & Journals, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Poetry

Publication Year1998

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections

AuthorSylvia Plath

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-015790

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal818/.5403 B

Edition DescriptionAbridged edition

SynopsisSylvia 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 imperatives," and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath's ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. Written in electrifying prose, The Journals of Sylvia Plath provide unique insight, and are essential reading for all those who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work., 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 imperatives," and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath's ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

LC Classification NumberPS3566.L27Z469 1998