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  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil (Editor), 732 pages, 2000
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  • Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life by Linda Wagner-Martin, 184 pages, 1999
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  • Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath by Paul Alexander, 432 pages, 1999
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    Based on interviews and archival research, this text probes the events of Plath's life - including her turbulent marriage to the English poet Ted Hughes.
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  • Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words by Steven Gould Axelrod, 276 pages, 1992
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    "Steven Gould Axelrod's new book should be considered the definitive study of Plath. . . [It] enlarges our view of Plath's work and provides important new interpretations of poems we might have imagined we knew well. This book is essential reading for all critics of Plath's work."--Margaret Dickie, 'Journal of English and Germanic Philology'
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The Bell Jar

  • Plath's The Bell Jar (Cliffs Notes) by Sylvia Plath, Jeanne Inness, 1985
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    Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
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