The Bell Jar -
Sylvia Plath
1966 - Faber and Faber, London - First Edition under the name ‘Sylvia Plath’
‘It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenburgs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.’
A superlative first edition of The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath’s first and only novel. Rare in such fine condition. Originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas a month before she committed suicide in 1963, it was first published under her real name in this edition of 1966. ‘This semi-autobiographical novel is raw, emotional, and uncompromising, as it chronicles the rise and breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a young writer on a scholarship in New York, as she spirals into chronic depression. Hailed as one of the most significant works of literary fiction in the 20th century, the novel has become a landmark in its depiction of mental illness, largely based on Plath’s own experiences undergoing electroshock therapy’.  More Details
Price: HK$ 28,000 |
