Sylvia Plath

Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like ‘guilt, and guilt, and guilt’: these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. ‘But what is the ninth kingdom?’ she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. ‘It is […]

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath’s correspondence, most of which has never before been published and is here presented unabridged, without revision, […]

The second volume of this landmark edition of Sylvia Plath’s correspondence. This selection of later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened. Experiences recorded include first books and other publications; teaching; committing to writing full-time; travels; making professional acquaintances; settling in England; starting a family; and buying a house. […]

En skräckens mästare, en kontroversiell och självutlämnande poet, en jazzålderns främste skildrare och en skarpögd och älskad samtidsförfattare – här hittar du fyra amerikanska storheters sällsamma och suggestiva berättelser om livet och döden, om drömmar; och om ren och skär fara. Presentask med fyra amerikanska klassiker: Huset Ushers undergång – Edgar Allen Poe Johnny Panic och drömbibeln – Sylvia Plath […]

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther’s life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a […]