Author
Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar follows Esther Greenwood, a bright 21-year-old college student from Boston, from a summer at a New York fashion magazine in 1953 into mental illness and hospital treatment. It is a short, dark, surprisingly funny coming-of-age classic about depression, ambition and the expectations placed on young women.