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About the Author Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University ...

Amazon Review Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, masterworks Robert Lowell describes as writte...

Amazon Review Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted y...

Set on the English coast against the vivid backdrop of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters who are grappling with the death of a beloved f...

Review All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon ... If only all literary lives were as succinct ― TIME OUT From his unique positio...

Review One realises afresh the full meaning of originality, the magic of the mind which plays around concrete facts as though they were all spirit...

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy...

This is a timeless collection of stories for younger children. In the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find th...

A Modernist Masterpiece of Memory and Emotion In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-m...

A definitive manifesto on female creative freedom and social justice. In these two foundational essays, Virginia Woolf explores the intersection of...

The most constructive and creative influence on English taste between the two wars, 'The Bloomsbury Group' was a union of friends who transformed B...

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956 Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetr...

'Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?' Pub...

Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the l...

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written...

An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination. ...