Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable, witty and disturbing, ..

A student from Boston wins a guest editorship on a national magazine, and finds a new world at her feet. Her New York life is crowded with possibilities, so the choice of future is overwhelming. She is faced with the perennial problems of morality, behaviour and identity.

In the Poet to Poet series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Ted Hughes selects Sylvia Plath.

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, The Colossus , during her life and a single novel, The Bell Jar . After her death Winter Trees , Crossing the Water and, most notably, the remarkable poems in Ariel , brought her posthumous fame.

These poems are, in Robert Lowells' words, events rather than the record of events, and as such, represent the triumph of the poet's romantic ambition .

This selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry - chosen by Ted Hughes - shows Plath to be a major poet of the 20th century.

The Bell Jar .

Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel , in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. In addition to the facsimile pages of Sylvia Plath's manuscript, this edition also includes in facsimile the working drafts of the title poem Ariel in order to offer a sense of Plath's creative process.

This volume contains all of Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. It was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. An appendix contains 50 earlier poems.

Three classic children's stories from Sylvia Plath are collected together in one volume for the first time, they are: Mrs Cherry's Kitchen, The Bed Book and The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit .

This is a transcription of the journals kept by Sylvia Plath over the last 12 years of her life. It gives insight into her final years and the evolution of her last poems.

Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm the author's status as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.

This edition contains the 13 stories included in the first, together with five pieces of Plath's journalism as well as a few fragments from her journal, and a further nine stories selected from the Indiana Archive.

Sylvia Plath's correspondence, addressed chiefly to her mother, from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s up to her suicide in London in February 1963. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, these letters also hint at her potential for deep despair.