Plath, Sylvia.

The bell jar / Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath. - 1st Perennial Classics ed. - New York : HarperPerennial, 1999. - xv, 264 p. : ill. - Perennial classics .

This extraordinary work--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.

ISBN: 0060930187 0571200338 (pbk.) 0571226167 (pbk. : 2005)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women college students--Fiction.
Suicidal behavior--Fiction.
Depression, Mental--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3566.L27 / B4 1996b PS3566.L27 / B4 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54