The Journals of Sylvia Plath - Softcover

Beginning with her freshman year at Smith, these journals reveal Sylvia Plath's unrelenting ambition to be a great writer, her recurrent struggles with her inner conflicts, and her feelings about herself and those closest to her

or contemporary American writer has inspired such intense curiosity about her life as Sylvia Plath. Now the intimate and eloquent personal diaries of the twentieth century's most important female poet reveal for the first time the true story behind "The Bell Jar" and her tragic suicide at thirty. They paint, as well, a revealing portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose stature has seldom been equalled.
"A revelation." The New York Times