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Ariel by Sylvia Plath
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Ariel (The Restored Edition) by Sylvia Plath
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, "Ariel", in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of "Ariel" left behind by Sylvia Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide ...Show more
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: Faber Stories by Sylvia Plath
$10.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It i ...Show more
Sylvia Plath - Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
$50.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. The text is preceded b ...Show more
Sylvia Plath - Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
$29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of twentieth-century poetry, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. Though she published just one collection in her lifetime, The Colossus, and a novel, "The Bell Jar", it was following her death in 1963 t ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: LIBERTY FABRIC COVER
'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol Oates 'A modern classic.' Guardian Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal. Esther's vision of ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the worl ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"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.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
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.'This terse account ...Show more
The Bell Jar: The Illustrated Edition by Sylvia Plath
$33.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
One of our hand-picked classics that no home should be without, now with Beya Reba's beautifully atmospheric artwork. I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical n ...Show more
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
$50.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
These are the complete journals of Sylvia Plath. "Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and ...Show more