Literary Fiction

The Bell Jar (Modern Classics) by Sylvia Plath, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

by Unknown author

Esther Greenwood's descent into mental illness unfolds against the backdrop of 1950s New York. Plath's semi-autobiographical novel captures a young woman's suffocation under societal expectations, tracing her breakdown with unflinching clarity and dark lyricism.

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