Sylvia Plath - Poetry, Fiction, Letters and Journals (15 books)

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer whose work starkly expresses a sense of alienation and self-destruction closely tied to her personal experiences and, by extension, the situation of women in mid-20th-century America.

Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, THE COLOSSUS AND OTHER POEMS (1960) and ARIEL (1965), and THE BELL JAR (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In the latter, the protagonist's descent into mental illness parallels Plath's own experiences with clinical depression. She died by suicide a month after its first UK publication. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for THE COLLECTED POEMS.

The first volume of the definitive, collected edition of Plath's LETTERS (2017) gathers her correspondence, many never before seen, with more than 120 people, including family, friends, contemporaries, and colleagues. Her diaries were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by her husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes. The UNABRIDGED JOURNALS (2000) is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:


== POETRY ==

* Ariel: The Restored Edition (Faber & Faber, 2004)

* Collected Poems (Harper & Row, 1981). Edited by Ted Hughes. -- ePUB + PDF

* Colossus & Other Poems (Vintage, 1998)

* Crossing the Water: Transitional Poems (HarperPerennial, 2016)

* Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2011). Edited by Ted Hughes.

* Winter Trees (Faber & Faber, 1975)


== FICTION ==

* Bell Jar, The (HarperCollins, 2015). Foreword by Frances McCullough.

* Bell Jar, The: 50th Anniversary Edition (Faber & Faber, 2012)

* It-Doesn't-Matter Suit & Other Stories, The (Faber & Faber, 2001)

* Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose & Diary Excerpts (HarperPerennial, 2016)


== LETTERS & JOURNALS ==

* Journals (Anchor, 1998). Edited by Ted Hughes.

* Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963 (Faber & Faber, 2010). Edited by Aurelia Schober Plath.

* Letters, Vol. 1: 1940-1956 (HarperCollins, 2017). Edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil.

* Unabridged Journals, 1950-1962 (Anchor, 2000). Edited by Karen V. Kukil.

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