The Bell Jar

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The Bell Jar (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

The Story:

Esther Greenwood was in New York City the summer that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were to be executed (1953). Ecstatic over having won a position as guest editor on the college board for a well-known magazine for young women, she was puzzled that she was not having the time of her life.

On the face of it, she had everything going for her. She was attractive, intelligent, and talented. She was a straight-A student. The magazine had arranged concerts, dances, celebrity interviews, fashion shows, and luncheons galore for the twelve college student women who had...

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• Sylvia Plath (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Sylvia Plath (Poetry)
• Sylvia Plath (Short Fiction)
• Sylvia Plath (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Sylvia Plath (Identities and Issues)
• Sylvia Plath (Women’s Issues)

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