An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attmpt. The Bell Jar is more that a confessional novel. It is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously.
Contains, in sequence, all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work.