Sylvia Plath

Nineteen of Plath's surviving stories, the earliest dating from 1952, are joined by five of her best pieces of journalism and selected excerpts from her diaries. Reissue.

Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

me and the parasocial relationship i have w a woman who baked herself

felicity hu

Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imagination. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.

Sabrina D. 

From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional storywriter.When the first edition of Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams appeared, Margaret Walters said of it in the Guardian, 'the book does offer . . . new insight into her development as a writer, suggesting how even her mistakes and dead ends contributed to the formation of an original and pathfinding talent'.This second edition contains the thirteen stories included in the first edition together with five pieces of her journalism, as well as a few fragments from her journal; and a further nine stories selected from the Indiana archive.

And Other Prose Writings

Prashant Prasad

This was the best time of the day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go. 
(Superman and Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit)

Being mythological does wonders for one's ego. 
(initiation)

plath has the best vocabulary (next to donna tartt imo)

lucia <3

lara anand

Karen Scarlet 

Caitlin Bohannon

Hellboy TCR

Malgorzata Olszewska

Mirella Hetekivi

Victoria Justice

Ce recueil réunit la quasi-totalité de l'œuvre de nouvelliste de Sylvia Plath, qui lui importait plus que tout autre forme littéraire. Dans l'Amérique crispée des années cinquante, l'auteure exprime sa révolte, sa détresse, ses élans poétiques, dans une langue qui révèle une tension insoutenable ainsi que les affres d'une féminité douloureuse.

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

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