Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #385681 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 358 pages

Customer Reviews

Bible of Brilliance
I love Plaths poems and The Bell Jar, so it was with enthusiasm that I read this, and I wasn't dissapointed.

There's a brief, but nice introduction by her husband Ted Hughes, then its straight into what is probably the best work in this collection of short stories, 'Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams'. It's just brilliant, evocative and a little bit scary at the end. Another personal favourite was 'The Day Mr Prescott Died', which is a charming and quite lovely depiction of people coping with death.

There are four parts, and part one is the best, being the original collection. The other three parts are made up of excerpts from her journal, five pices of her journalism, and some extra stories. none of these are as brilliant as the first section - some of her earlier writing style comes across a bit clumsily - but still make for interesting reading, and show the development of her writing.

A great, great book, from a wonderful writer.

A must read for any Plath fans
This book brings together some of Plath's most successful short stories, as well as lesser know prose writings and early stories and journal excerpts.

If anything, this collection proves that Plath is more than just the author of 'The Bell Jar' combining her expertly crafted sentences with a vast and unique imagination to create some really original and memorable stories. My personal favourites are the title story as well as 'The fifty- ninth bear' and 'The day Mr Prescott died'.

This is a great collection of stories, to be enjoyed by anyone, not just Plath fans!