The Bell Jar (23 page)

This book is a work of fiction. All characters and events are a product of the author's imagination. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

The quotation on page 16 is from “Sunflower,” by Mack David, copyright © 1948 by Famous Music Corporation.

The lines on page 105 are from “Wunderbar,” by Cole Porter, copyright © 1951 by Cole Porter; copyright © 1967 by John F. Wharton, Trustee T. B. Harms Co., Selling Agent.

Sylvia Plath's poem “Mad Girl's Lovesong” first appeared in the August 1953 issue of
Mademoiselle.

This book was originally published in Great Britain and is fully protected by copyright under the terms of the International Copyright Union.

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THE BELL JAR
. Copyright © 1971 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Copyright renewed © 1998 by Frieda Hughes and Nicholas Hughes. Foreword copyright © 1996 by Frances McCullough. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

25th Anniversary edition published 1996.

First Perennial Classics edition published 1999.

First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published 2005.

First Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe edition published 2006.

First Olive Edition published 2009.

Illustrations by Milan Bozic

The Library of Congress has catalogued the 25th Anniversary edition as follows:

   Plath, Sylvia.

The bell jar / Sylvia Plath; foreword by Frances McCullough; drawings by Sylvia Plath.

          p.    ill.    cm.

       ISBN 0-06-017490-0

1. Depression, Mental—Fiction. 2. Women college students—Suicidal behavior—Fiction. 3. Autobiographical fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

   PS3566.L27B4             1996b

   813'54—dc20

96-211742

EPub Edition July 2015 ISBN 9780062444479

ISBN 978-0-06-184990-9

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