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Plath, Sylvia

Overview
Works:1,448 works in 3,179 publications in 43 languages and 145,727 library holdings
Genres:Young adult fiction  Autobiographical fiction  Feminist fiction  American poetry  Picture books for children  Visual literature  Artists' books 
Roles:Performer, Illustrator, Editor, Other, Librettist, Lyricist, Creator, Dedicatee, Bibliographic antecedent, Contributor, Correspondent, Composer
Classifications:ps3566.l27, 811.54
Most widely held works about Sylvia Plath
 
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Most widely held works by Sylvia Plath
The bell jar by Sylvia Plath( Book )
338 editions published between 1948 and 2010 in 28 languages and held by 5,650 libraries worldwide
Esther Greenwood, a talented college student, finds herself estranged from her family and resigned to a conventional lifestyle and descends into depression and mental illness.
The collected poems by Sylvia Plath( Book )
61 editions published between 1981 and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 3,443 libraries worldwide
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.
Ariel by Sylvia Plath( Book )
111 editions published between 1965 and 2010 in 13 languages and held by 3,059 libraries worldwide
Forty-three poems published previously in "The New Yorker", "Poetry", and "The Observer". For other editions, see Author Catalog.
The journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath( Book )
68 editions published between 1982 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 2,970 libraries worldwide
Presents the complete journals of twentieth-century American author Sylvia Plath, from 1950 to 1962, transcribed from her original manuscripts.
Letters home : correspondence, 1950-1963 by Sylvia Plath( Book )
81 editions published between 1975 and 2000 in 6 languages and held by 2,380 libraries worldwide
This volume collects together 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.
Winter trees by Sylvia Plath( Book )
37 editions published between 1971 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 2,013 libraries worldwide
Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams : short stories, prose, and diary excerpts by Sylvia Plath( Book )
73 editions published between 1963 and 2008 in 9 languages and held by 1,929 libraries worldwide
SHORT STORIES, PROSE AND DIARY EXCERPTS.
Crossing the water; transitional poems by Sylvia Plath( Book )
19 editions published between 1971 and 2001 in English and held by 1,671 libraries worldwide
Contains over thirty poems written by the American author in the middle period of her career.
The colossus & other poems by Sylvia Plath( Book )
31 editions published between 1957 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,601 libraries worldwide
From the Publisher: With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock.
Ariel : the restored edition by Sylvia Plath( Book )
4 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in English and held by 1,372 libraries worldwide
"A restored edition of Sylvia Plath's collection of poems that were published after her death that restores the selection and arrangement of the poems as Plath left them at the point of her death."
The bed book by Sylvia Plath( Book )
24 editions published between 1976 and 1999 in 9 languages and held by 1,057 libraries worldwide
Describes various beds that are much more interesting than beds for sleeping, such as a jet-propelled bed, snack bed, pocket-size bed, and bounceable bed.
Sylvia Plath( visu )
28 editions published between 1979 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 735 libraries worldwide
The life and career of American poet Sylvia Plath, related through photographs, dramatizations, readings from her works and anecdotal commentary by her mother, her teachers, various friends and other poets and writers.
Voices & visions( visu )
27 editions published between 1988 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 636 libraries worldwide
College course in American poetry presents the lives and poetry of 13 major poets.
Crossing the water by Sylvia Plath( Book )
24 editions published between 1971 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 486 libraries worldwide
Plath : poems by Sylvia Plath( Book )
9 editions published between 1975 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 482 libraries worldwide
An anthology by a poet who committed suicide. In Lady Lazarus, she wrote: "Dying / Is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well. / I do it so it feels like hell. / I do it so it feels real. / I guess you could say I've a call." A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy", have had an enduring influence on contemporary poetry.
The colossus by Sylvia Plath( Book )
49 editions published between 1960 and 2008 in English and held by 440 libraries worldwide
A collection of poems showing a scholarly dedication to the craft.
Sylvia Plath's Selected poems by Sylvia Plath( Book )
6 editions published between 1985 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 369 libraries worldwide
In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.
Sylvia Plath reading her poetry by Sylvia Plath( Sound Recording )
11 editions published between 1977 and 1987 in English and Undetermined and held by 349 libraries worldwide
Readings taken from The Colessus and other poems, Ariel, Crossing the water, Letters home, and Collected poems.
The it-doesn't-matter suit by Sylvia Plath( Book )
24 editions published between 1996 and 2000 in 12 languages and held by 320 libraries worldwide
This is the story of young Max Nix, a seven-year-old boy in search of the perfect set of clothing. Yet Max receives more than he bargained for in the wonderful, woolly, whiskery, brand-new, mustard-yellow It-Doesn't-Matter Suit.
Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath( Sound Recording )
15 editions published between 1960 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 294 libraries worldwide
Sylvia Plath reads twenty-one of her poems.
 
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The bell jar
Alternative Names
Hughes, Sylvia
Hughes, Sylvia, 1932-1963
Hughes, Sylvia Plath 1932-1963
Lucas, Victoria.
Lucas, Victoria, 1932-1963
Plat, Silvii︠a︡
Plat, Silʹvija 1932-1963
Plaṭ, Silviyah
Plath Hughes, Sylvia 1932-1963
Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963
Pseud. Lucas, Victoria 1932-1963
Späterer Name Hughes, Sylvia 1932-1963
היוז, סילביה
פלאת, סילביה
西爾維婭.普拉斯
西爾維婭.普拉斯
פלאת, סילביה
แพลท, ซิลเวีย
פירון, מאירה
Languages
English (2,848)
German (123)
French (71)
Spanish (66)
Undetermined (63)
Italian (48)
Japanese (26)
Polish (25)
Danish (25)
Swedish (24)
Hebrew (22)
Dutch (20)
No Linguistic Content (16)
Finnish (15)
Portuguese (13)
Norwegian (10)
Slovenian (10)
Catalan (10)
Chinese (8)
Turkish (8)
Czech (7)
Croatian (7)
Persian (6)
Greek, Modern [1453- ] (6)
Multiple languages (6)
Korean (6)
Hungarian (6)
Serbian (5)
Macedonian (3)
Faroese (2)
Latin (2)
Russian (2)
Malayalam (2)
Estonian (1)
Icelandic (1)
Lithuanian (1)
Romanian (1)
Latvian (1)
Vietnamese (1)
Bengali (1)
Esperanto (1)
Slovak (1)
Thai (1)
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The collected poemsArielThe journals of Sylvia PlathLetters home : correspondence, 1950-1963Winter treesJohnny Panic and the Bible of dreams : short stories, prose, and diary excerptsCrossing the water; transitional poemsThe colossus & other poems
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