One of The Atlantics Great American Novels

A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of this haunting American classic: arealistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath.

It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plaths voice inThe Bell Jarthat make this book enduring in its appeal. USA Today

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going undermaybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esthers breakdown with such intensity that Esthers neurosis becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar an enduring classic.