The Bell Jar | Related Titles
Several of Plath's short stories and essays are collected in Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, and Other Prose Writings (1977). Most of Plath's short stories are slick, conventional tales which she wrote to pander to the very women's magazines she lampoons in The Bell Jar; accordingly, they hold little interest for admirers of the novel and the poetry. An exception is the surreal title story, first published in 1968 by the Atlantic Monthly and included in The Best American Short Stories: 1969 (1969). In "Johnny Panic," a young clerk in a city hospital...
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