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Product Identifiers

PublisherFaber & Faber, Incorporated

ISBN-100571301630

ISBN-139780571301638

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038754378

Product Key Features

Book TitleJournals of Sylvia Plath

Number of Pages768 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

TopicPsychopathology / Depression, Literary, Poetry

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology

AuthorSylvia Plath

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height2 in

Item Weight25.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Reviews'So what does this new edition of the Journals offer, other than Karen Kukil's exemplary editing? Most importantly, it gives us Plath unmediated, as no biography or memoir can ... The poems tell the story as the poets [Hughes and Plath] wanted, with the composure of great art. But in their raw intimacy, these Journals are no less enthralling.' Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal818/.5403 B

SynopsisA beautifully repackaged edition of these intimate, compelling journals. The complete journals of Sylvia Plath. 'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now. The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'So what does this new edition of the Journals offer, other than Karen Kukil's exemplary editing? Most importantly, it gives us Plath unmediated, as no biography or memoir can . The poems tell the story as the poets [Hughes and Plath] wanted, with the composure of great art. But in their raw intimacy, these Journals are no less enthralling.' Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday, The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression - are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel and The Colossus . 'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.' John Carey, Sunday Times

LC Classification NumberPS3566.L27