The Bell Jar
A Novel
by Sylvia Plath
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Recommended by 4 notable people, including Janet Mock and Chloë Grace Moretz
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Short, Fiction, and Classic.
Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanityEsther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going undermaybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown wit...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Short, Fiction, and Classic.
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