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The real plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly written book, which remains. Summary read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. The year is 1953 and esther greenwood, having finished college for the academic year, has won a onemonth paid internship at ladies day magazine in new york city. Net login register for bookmarks and favorites menu login. The bell jar by sylvia plath, 9780578408, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems the kind of book salingers franny might have written about herself ten years later, if she had spent those ten years in hell.
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