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Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (Bloom's Guides) by Bloom, Harold is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (Bloom's Guides) about?
In this classic coming-of-age novel set in post-World War II America, Esther Greenwood emerges as a double for author Sylvia Plath. A summer internship at a fashion magazine in New York City reveals only the lack of beauty in the young womans inner life, as Esther succumbs to a pervasive depression that she likens to being trapped beneath the title object, a bell jar, struggling for her next breath. Noted literary scholar Harold Bloom introduces this new title in the Blooms Guides series, which also features an annotated bibliography and a listing of other works by the author.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bloom, Harold
- Publisher
- Facts On File, Incorporated
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781604132038
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (12 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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