Sylvia Plath

"Engaging and revealing, The Letters of Sylvia Plath offers a captivating look into the life and inner thinking of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century." -- Paul Alexander, Washington PostThe second volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Sylvia Plath, from the early years of her marriage to Ted Hughes to the final days leading to her suicide in 1963, many never before seen. One of the most talented and beloved poets, Sylvia Plath continues to fascinate and inspire the modern literary imagination. The tragedy of her untimely death at age thirty, almost fifty-five years ago, has left much unknown about her creative and personal life. In this remarkable second volume of the iconic poet and writer's collected letters, the full range of Plath's ambitions, talents, fears, and perspective is made visible through her own powerful words. As engaging as they are revealing, these remarkable letters cover the years from 1957 to 1963. They detail the last six tumultuous and prolific years of her life, covering her marriage to Ted Hughes, the births of her children Frieda and Nicholas, her early success, including the publication of the classic The Bell Jar, and her ongoing struggle with depression. The first compendium of its kind to include all of Plath's letters from this period, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 2 offers an intimate portrait of the writing life and mind of one of the most celebrated poets in literary history.

Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most celebrated poems - 'Childless Woman', 'Mirror', 'Insomniac' - while discovering those still overlooked, including her radio play Three Women. These two extraordinary volumes find their place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent.'Nearly all the poems here have the familiar Plath daring, the same feel of bits of frightened, vibrant, indignant consciousness translated instantly into words and images that blend close, experienced horror and icy, sardonic control.' Alan Brownjohn, New Statesman

The poems in Winter Trees were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were chosen. They reveal the poet at the height of her creative powers, exhibiting the startling imagery and dramatic play for which she became known. Published posthumously in 1971, this valuable collection finds its place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent.'Nearly all the poems here have the familiar Plath daring, the same feel of bits of frightened, vibrant, indignant consciousness translated instantly into words and images that blend close, experienced horror and icy, sardonic control.' New Statesman'A book that anyone seriously interested in poetry now must have . . . Sylvia Plath's immense gift is evident throughout.' Guardian

"The Letters of Sylvia Plath underscores Plath's jaw-dropping output, her rapid growth from merely talented to singular voice. . . . The result is a comprehensive portrait of the artist as a young woman, ardently -- unnervingly -- committed to literature and relationships." --Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star-TribuneThe first volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Sylvia Plath--most never before seen. One of the most beloved poets of the modern age, Sylvia Plath continues to inspire and fascinate the literary world. While her renown as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets is beyond dispute, Plath was also one of its most captivating correspondents. The Letters of Sylvia Plath is the breathtaking compendium of this prolific writer's correspondence with more than 120 people, including family, friends, contemporaries, and colleagues. The Letters of Sylvia Plath includes her correspondence from her years at Smith, her summer editorial internship in New York City, her time at Cambridge, her experiences touring Europe, and the early days of her marriage to Ted Hughes in 1956. Most of the letters are previously unseen, including sixteen letters written by Plath to Hughes when they were apart after their honeymoon. This magnificent compendium also includes twenty-seven of Plath's own elegant line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, as well as twenty-two previously unpublished photographs. This remarkable, collected edition of Plath's letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a comprehensive and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters that she wrote. Intimate and revealing, this masterful compilation offers fans and scholars generous and unprecedented insight into the life of one of our most significant poets.

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence, most of which has never before been published and is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. Refreshingly candid and offering intimate details of her personal life, Plath is playful, too, entertaining a wide range of addressees, including family, friends and professional contacts, with inimitable wit and verve. The letters document Plath's extraordinary literary development: the genesis of many poems, short and long fiction, and journalism. Her endeavour to publish in a variety of genres had mixed receptions, but she was never dissuaded. Through acceptance of her work, and rejection, Plath strove to stay true to her creative vision. Well-read and curious, she offers a fascinating commentary on contemporary culture. Leading Plath scholars Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, provide comprehensive footnotes and an extensive index informed by their meticulous research. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own line-drawings, the editors masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose. This selection of early correspondence marks the key moments of Plath's adolescence, including childhood hobbies and high school boyfriends; her successful but turbulent undergraduate years at Smith College; the move to England and Cambridge University; and her meeting and marrying Ted Hughes, including a trove of unseen letters post-honeymoon, revealing their extraordinary creative partnership.

En skräckens mästare, en kontroversiell och självutlämnande poet, en jazzålderns främste skildrare och en skarpögd och älskad samtidsförfattare - här hittar du fyra amerikanska storheters sällsamma och suggestiva berättelser om livet och döden, om drömmar, och om ren och skär fasa. Asken innehåller fyra böcker:Edgar Allan Poe - Huset Ushers undergångSylvia Plath - Johnny Panic och drömbibelnF. Scott Fitzgerald - Det sällsamma fallet Benjamin ButtonJoyce Carol Oates - Nattsidan"Precis så här ska noveller läsas. En och en." Dagens NyheterNovellix ger ut stora läsupplevelser i litet format! En novell per bok, och alltid med originalomslag av svenska formgivare, illustratörer och konstnärer. Novellerna säljs både styckvis och förpackade i fina presentaskar.

I 1953 vinder den 19-årige Esther Greenwood en måneds praktikophold i New York på et modemagasin. Som del af en gruppe talentfulde unge kvinder bliver hun indlogeret på hotel og inviteret ind i New Yorks fashionable verden med modeshows og fester. Esther vil gerne være digter og er en klartskuende og ret så nådesløs iagttager af det liv, der omgiver hende, men selv er hun mere og mere apatisk. Hjemkosten til Boston, hvor Esther bor med sin mor, bliver et chok. Hun får afslag på det skrivekursus, hun har ansøgt om, og sommeren ligger skræmmende tom foran hende. Efter et mislykket selvmordsforsøg bliver hun indlagt på psykiatrisk hospital. En glasklokke har sænket sig over hende. GLASKLOKKEN er nyoversat i af Mette Moestrup og Olga Ravn.

A timeless collection of stories for younger children. In the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There's magic afoot in Mrs Cherry's Kitchen and children will love to find their perfect Nighty-night little / Turn-out-the-light little Bed! in The Bed Book.

Glassklokken ble utgitt under pseudonymet Victoria Lucas få måneder etter forfatterens død. Et grunntema i beretningen er selvmordet. Unge Esther Greenwood kjemper to kamper, én mot hennes eget begjær etter gode karakterer, kjærester, et vakkert utseende og karriere - den andre mot mental sykdom. Etter å ha tilbrakt en måned i New York som premie i en novellekonkurranse, blir hjemkomsten til sommerhete Boston et sjokk. Esther får vite at hun ikke er kommet inn på det forfatterkurset hun har søkt på. Snart er sammenbruddet nært, og livet under «glassklokken» begynner. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) ble født i Boston og bosatte seg senere i London. Plath ble regnet for å være et meget begavet barn, og hun publiserte sitt første dikt allerede som åtteåring. Senere skrev hun både romaner, noveller, dikt og essays. Plath slet med alvorlig depresjon store deler av livet, og etter at hun begikk selvmord i 1963, har hun fått en tilnærmet ikonisk status. Glassklokken har biografiske trekk fra forfatterens eget liv, og boken har i dag kultstatus.

The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression - are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel and The Colossus.'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 other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.' John Carey, Sunday Times

I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The novel is partially based on Plath's own life and has become a modern classic. The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny and a razor sharp portrait of 1950s society and has sold millions of copies worldwide.

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels"A coming-of-age masterpiece." --Boston Globe"It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal." --USA TodaySylvia Plath's masterwork--an acclaimed and enduring novel about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressuresEsther Greenwood is a bright, beautiful, enormously talented young woman, but she's slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her neurosis becomes palpably real, even rational--as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.

In the harrowing acclaimed novel by the celebrated poet, Esther Greenwood, a rising editor during the early 1950s, suffers a nervous breakdown, falling deeply into depression and madness. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Berättarjaget i Sylvia Plaths novell Johnny Panic och drömbibeln arbetar som sekreterare på ett sjukhus. Hon ägnar dagarna åt att renskriva patienternas drömmar, men för i hemlighet in dem i sin drömbibel varje kväll, på uppdrag av den store drömskaparen Johnny Panic. Plath skrev den mörka och suggestiva berättelsen efter att ha ar­betat på ett arkiv för mentalsjuka. Liksom flera andra av författarens verk berör novellen teman som depression och psykisk ohälsa, något gjorde att texterna refuserades då de ansågs vara för kontroversiella för sin tid. Novellix ger nu ut en nyöversättning av novellen i samband med 50-årsjubileumet av Plaths hyllade roman Glaskupan. Dröm för dröm utbildar jag mig själv till att bli den där sällsynta figuren, mer sällsynt rentav, än någon av medlemmarna på Institutet för psykoanalys, en drömkonnässör. Inte någon drömstoppare, drömtydare, inte någon som exploaterar drömmar i enfaldiga hälso- och lyckosyften, utan en obesudlad drömsamlare för drömmarnas egen skull. En drömälskare för Johnny Panics skull, allas deras skapare. Novellix ger ut små, snygga böcker i vykortsstorlek med en novell per bok. Både klassiker och nyskrivet - allt ifrån Virginia Woolf till Håkan Nesser! Samtliga böcker med originalomslag av svenska formgivare, illustratörer och konstnärer. Novellix-novellerna säljs både styckvis och förpackade i fina presentaskar. Stora läsupplevelser i ett litet format.

I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The novel is partially based on Plath's own life and descent into mental illness, and has become a modern classic. The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny and razor sharp portrait of 1950s society and has sold millions of copies worldwide.

”Dessa mina nya dikter har en sak gemensamt. De skrevs alla omkring klockan fyra på morgonen – den där lugna, blå, nästan eviga timmen innan tuppen gal, innan barnet börjar skrika, före mjölkbudets glasmusik som hörs när han ordnar flaskorna. Om de har något annat gemensamt är det kanske att de skrevs för örat, inte för ögat: de är dikter som skrevs högt.” Sylvia Plath, december 1962 Denna utgåva av Ariel, den första på svenska, innehåller Sylvia Plaths egen originalversion av diktsamlingen (utgiven först 2004) samt de dikter som lades till i de engelska och amerikanska utgåvorna 1965 och 1966. Jonas ­Ellerström och Jenny Tunedal står för översättning, efterord och kommentarer.