The Bell Jar

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By Sylvia Plath

Esther Greenwood is nineteen, academically brilliant, and spending a month in New York on a magazine internship that she is supposed to be enjoying.

She is not enjoying it, and on returning home she comes apart: the electroconvulsive therapy, the institution, the attempt on her own life. Plath’s only novel, published a month before her death under a pseudonym, and unmatched at describing depression from the inside without asking for sympathy.

First published 1963