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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.

'It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems . . . The world in which the events of the novel take place is a world bounded by the Cold War on one side and the sexual war on the other . . . This novel is not political nor historical in any narrow sense, but in looking at the madness of the world and the world of madness it forces us to consider the great question posed by all truly realistic fiction: What is reality and how can it be confronted? . . . Esther Greenwood's account of her year in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.' New York Times Book Review

GenresDepression, MentalUnited StatesFictionWomen college students

258 pages, 105 editions

English edition · First published 1948 by Faber and Faber · ISBN 9780571081783

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Editions

60 editions

English

  • The Bell Jar · Faber and Faber · 1966 · ISBN 9780571081783 · 2 readers This page
  • The Bell Jar · Independently published · 2025 · ISBN 9798293740550
  • The Bell Jar · Independently published · 2025 · ISBN 9798307652626
  • The Bell Jar · Independently published · 2025 · ISBN 9798307798096
  • The Bell Jar · Independently published · 2025 · ISBN 9798296231215
  • The Bell Jar · Empty Canvas Publishers · 2025 · ISBN 9789393606440
  • The Bell Jar · Independently published · 2024 · ISBN 9798332817038
  • The Bell Jar · Independently published · 2024 · ISBN 9798335047821
  • The Bell Jar · Pomodoro Books · 2023 · ISBN 9781998114719
  • The Bell Jar · Faber & Faber · 2022 · ISBN 9780571373109
  • The Bell Jar · Faber & Faber · 2022 · ISBN 9780571373079
  • The Bell Jar · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798720315146
  • The Bell Jar · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798758110164
  • The Bell Jar · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798471405455
  • The Bell Jar · 2021 · ISBN 9798598401743
  • The Bell Jar · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798719270852
  • The Bell Jar · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798774719556
  • Bell Jar : The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath,baby Sleep Training Book,baby Sleep Training,world War 2 Books · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798459980554
  • The Bell Jar · Independently Published · 2020 · ISBN 9798557365789
  • The Bell Jar · Independently Published · 2020 · ISBN 9798556348608
  • The Bell Jar · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2018 · ISBN 9781986506212
  • The Bell Jar · Arcturus · 2018 · ISBN 9781788885607
  • The Bell Jar · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2017 · ISBN 9781981813704
  • The Bell Jar · HarperAudio · 2016 · ISBN 9780060886646
  • The Bell Jar · Faber & Faber, Limited · 2015 · ISBN 9780571327805
  • The Bell Jar · McClelland & Stewart · 2015 · ISBN 9781551997346
  • The Bell Jar · Indigo Library · 2015 · ISBN 9781849310963
  • The Bell Jar · Harper Collins · 2014 · ISBN 9781443431897
  • The Bell Jar · Green Light E-Books · 2014 · ISBN 9781622402939
  • The Bell Jar · Faber and Faber · 2013 · ISBN 9780571268863
  • The Bell Jar · Findaway · 2010 · ISBN 9781449828424
  • The Bell Jar · Marco Book Company · 2009 · ISBN 9780784814581
  • The Bell Jar · HarperCollins · 2009 · ISBN 9780061849909
  • The Bell Jar · Faber · 2009 · ISBN 9780571245642
  • The Bell Jar · Marco Book Company · 2009 · ISBN 9780784837634
  • The Bell Jar · RecordedBooks · 2006 · ISBN 9781556906565
  • The Bell Jar · Faber and Faber · 2005 · ISBN 9780571226160
  • The Bell Jar · HarperPerennial · 2005 · ISBN 9780756980054
  • The Bell Jar · HarperPerennial · 2005 · ISBN 9780329576103
  • The Bell Jar · HarperPerennial · 2005 · ISBN 9781451725391
  • The Bell Jar · Faber and Faber · 1999 · ISBN 9780571248209
  • The Bell Jar · Faber and Faber · 1999 · ISBN 9780571200337
  • The Bell Jar · G.K. Hall · 1997 · ISBN 9780060573096
  • The Bell Jar · Camden · 1997 · ISBN 9780745188317
  • The Bell Jar · G.K. Hall · 1997 · ISBN 9780783819877
  • The Bell Jar · Faber · 1996 · ISBN 9780571179817
  • The Bell Jar · Buccaneer Books · 1995 · ISBN 9780899668154
  • The Bell Jar · Recorded Books, Inc. · 1992 · ISBN 9781402523663
  • The Bell Jar · Bantam Books · 1981 · ISBN 9780553239607
  • The Bell Jar · Perfection Learning Prebound · 1977 · ISBN 9780812415148
  • The Bell Jar · Bantam Books · 1972 · ISBN 9780553229080
  • The Bell Jar · Turtleback · 1972 · ISBN 9780606022941
  • The Bell Jar · Bantam · 1972 · ISBN 9780553071788
  • The Bell Jar · Bantam Books · 1972 · ISBN 9780553103700
  • The Bell Jar · Bantam Books · 1971 · ISBN 9780553124200
  • The Bell Jar · Harper & Row · 1971 · ISBN 9780060133566
  • The Bell Jar · Faber · 1966 · ISBN 9780571067824
  • The Bell Jar · Harper Collins · 1963 · ISBN 9780060837020
  • The Bell Jar · Faber and Faber · 1948 · ISBN 9798847857741
  • The Bell Jar · ISBN 9781199815378

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