New Releases by Sylvia Plath

Una nueva edición de la novela icónica de Sylvia Plath, con traducción inédita de Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino y prólogo de Aixa de la Cruz, que da una nueva lectura en pleno reflujo de la más reciente oleada feminista. «Respiré profundamente y escuché el antiguo estribillo de mi corazón. Yo soy, yo soy, yo soy». Esta es la historia de una chica que tiene todo lo que una joven puede desear en el Nueva York de los años cincuenta: una carrera prometedora, un pretendiente que estudia medicina y toda una vida por delante. Esther Greenwood ha ganado una beca para trabajar en una revista de moda en la gran ciudad y siente que por fin podrá realizar su sueño de ser escritora. Pero entre cócteles, noches de fiesta y pilas de manuscritos descubre una sociedad que repudia las aspiraciones de las mujeres y su vida empieza a desmoronarse. Esther -alter ego de la autora- se encierra en sí misma, como si estuviera atrapada en una campana de cristal: respirando continuamente el mismo aire viciado y sin posibilidad de escapar. Más de cincuenta años después de su publicación original, La campana de cristal se ha convertido en un clásico moderno, y las palabras de Plath, con la nueva traducción de Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino, conservan todo su impacto. Esta obra icónica, como dice Aixa de la Cruz en el prólogo, «viaja al presente como una corriente eléctrica y nos interpela de tú a tú, sin mediaciones». ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A new edition of Sylvia Plath''s iconic novel, with an unpublished translation by Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino and a foreword by Aixa de la Cruz, offering a new interpretation in the midst of the latest feminist wave. "A coming-of-age masterpiece." --Boston Globe "It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath''s voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal." --USA Today The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath''s masterwork―an acclaimed and timeless work of psychological fiction about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressures. The story chronicles the breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a bright, beautiful, enormously talented college student facing a profound identity crisis while coming of age in 1950s America, as she navigates the pressures of society along with her own ambitions. While at a prestigious, competitively won position at a New York City magazine one summer, Esther finds herself struggling with the looming expectations of marriage, motherhood, and giving up on her dreams to achieve them. She becomes increasingly disillusioned and her mental health deteriorates, ultimately leading her to undergo harsh treatment and therapy. "Funny, intense, enormously human" (Cosmopolitan), The Bell Jar is a poignant exploration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche and remains an extraordinary accomplishment from one of the country''s most luminous talents.

El nuevo estuche de Poesía Portátil que recoge la selección de siete voces femeninas esenciales de la poesía. Esta recopilación abarca la urgencia lírica de siete poetas: los versos de la rusa Anna Ajmátova, sometida al terror más feroz durante el estalinismo; o la intensidad, el dolor y la belleza de las implacables composiciones de Sylvia Plath; pasando por los textos de Emily Dickinson, desprovistos de adornos y reglas que hablan de la mujer, de la enfermedad y de la muerte; o los mejores versos de las almas torturadas y de extrema sensibilidad de Idea Vilariño. Se recogen, además, los poemas más icónicos de Anne Sexton, pionera en la lírica confesional y en abordar poéticamente muchos temas considerados tabú; los de la incansable viajera Elizabeth Bishop, sencillos, lúcidos y libres; y los de una de las mejores poetas latinoamericanas del siglo XX, Rosario Castellanos, digna heredera de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Esta edición estuche contiene los volúmenes: He leído que no mueren las almas, de Anna Ajmátova Soy vertical pero preferiría ser horizontal, de Sylvia Plath Morí por la belleza, de Emily Dickinson Ya no será, de Idea Vilariño Mi boca florece como una herida, de Anne Sexton El arte de perder, de Elizabeth Bishop Mujer de buenas intenciones, de Rosario Castellanos

Sylvia Plath's first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This new volume draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition. The book is in two parts. It begins with the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and on which her reputation is founded, and follows with those poems written in childhood and through her student years. In both sections the editors date, correct and arrange each poem chronologically, drawing on manuscripts, typescripts and related material. Critical notes help document Plath's extraordinary evolution as a poet, from her childhood compositions through to the blossoming of early ambition and into the molten core that was to shape the poems of her last few years and secure her place in literary history.

The complete edition of Sylvia Plath's prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material, edited by Peter K. Steinberg. The Collected Prose stands alongside the Journals (2000) and the two volume Letters (2017 and 2018) to support a more complete understanding of Sylvia Plath's ambition and achievement as a writer. Expanding on the selection published as Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977), this volume draws together all of Sylvia Plath's shorter prose, much of which is previously uncollected and unpublished. The volume embraces her experiments with the short story and pieces of non-fiction from the 1940s through to her more polished compositions of the fifties and early sixties, including fragments of fiction as well as her journalism and book reviews. Themes and associations become apparent as the volume offers new, intertextual ways of reading across Plath's oeuvre, colouring and shading our understanding and appreciation of her extraordinary talent. From reviews of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956 and Volume II: 1956-1963: 'Sylvia Plath was not only a great poet, she also forged some of the best prose of the twentieth century. . . she wrote letters of extraordinary wit and vivacity. Their publication is a major literary event.' The Times 'These letters are by turns poignant, revelatory, banal, hilarious and self-absorbed, documenting as they do the changing moods, ambitions and intellectual and creative development of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poets. ' Evening Standard 'Such was the impact of [Plath's] exploration of both inner and outer landscapes in staggeringly intense, brutal and lyrical language that her loss to the literary world has been mourned ever since.' Financial Times

An American poet, novelist and short story writer, Sylvia Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry. She is best known for her groundbreaking poetry collections, ‘The Colossus and Other Poems’ and ‘Ariel’, as well as her semi-autobiographical novel, published shortly before her suicide in 1963. A classic of modern fiction, ‘The Bell Jar’ starkly expresses a sense of alienation and self-destruction closely tied to the author’s personal experiences, exploring the societal restraints of women in mid-twentieth-century America. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. For the first time in publishing history, this volume presents Plath’s complete works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Plath’s life and works * Detailed introduction to Plath’s life and poetry * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Plath’s complete fiction — ‘The Bell Jar’ and her rare short stories * Features rare essays and letters — discover Plath’s literary breadth * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Sylvia Plath Brief Introduction: Sylvia Plath The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) Ariel (1965) Fiesta Melons (1971) Crossing the Water (1971) Winter Trees (1972) Uncollected Poems The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Verse Drama Three Women (1968) The Novel The Bell Jar (1963) The Short Stories The Short Stories of Sylvia Plath The Essays Miscellaneous Essays The Letters Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963 (1975)

»Novellerna spänner från att vara bra till briljanta. I de bästa har Plath en skarp blick för parrelationens strukturer och maktordning.« Betyg: 5 av 5 - Magnus Dahlerus, BTJ »En av det engelska språkets mest firade och kontroversiella efterkrigspoeter.« Margaret Atwood Sylvia Plaths liv, äktenskap och självmord är sedan länge mytologiserade, genom filmer, romaner och idealiserande kommentarer. I första hand är det poesin och romanen Glaskupan som ligger till grund för de idolbilder som gärna ställer sig i vägen för författarskapet. Plaths noveller är på gott och ont mindre kända; deras tematik - psykisk ohälsa, kvinnans plats i patriarkatet, äktenskapet - betraktades som kontroversiell av författarens samtid, och hon hade svårt att få dem publicerade. Här presenteras ett fylligt urval. I svensk översättning av Margareta Tegnemark, med ett nyskrivet förord av litteraturkritikern Björn Kohlström. SYLVIA PLATH föddes i Boston 1932. Efter att ha skrivit en avhandling om Fjodor Dostojevskij kom hon i mitten av 1950-talet till England som Fulbrightstipendiat. Debutboken The Colossus utkom 1960, men det var med den postuma utgåvan av Ariel 1965 som hennes rykte verkligen började växa. Under hela livet led Plath av svåra depressioner. Hon begick självmord 1963.

Johnny Panic och drömbibeln är en novell av Sylvia Plath, först publicerad 1958. Här i översättning av Margareta Tegnemark. SYLVIA PLATH föddes i Boston 1932. Efter att ha skrivit en avhandling om Fjodor Dostojevskij kom hon i mitten av 1950-talet till England som Fulbrightstipendiat. Debutboken The Colossus utkom 1960, men det var med den postuma utgåvan av Ariel 1965 som hennes rykte verkligen började växa. Under hela livet led Plath av svåra depressioner. Hon begick självmord 1963.

Flera generationer av kvinnor har fängslats av den amerikanska författaren och poeten Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), som skrev romanen Glaskupan och diktsamlingen Ariel, men lika mycket av hennes tragiska öde. Hon blev under sextio- och sjuttiotalen till en symbol för kvinnans kamp för självständighet och frihet. Plaths efterlämnade dagböcker speglar livsglädje och dödslängtan och ger läsaren en djup inblick i hur hon formades, utvecklades och levde. Redan som artonåring konstaterar hon klarsynt att villkoren för män och kvinnor är mycket olika. "Jag tycker inte om att vara flicka, för som flicka måste jag lära mig inse att jag inte kan vara man." Hon vill skriva och bli författare men tvivlar på sin begåvning. Periodvis lider hon av depressioner och redan 1953 försöker hon ta sitt liv. Under collegetiden söker hon oavbrutet mäns sällskap, blickar, bekräftelse, samtal, beskydd och kroppar. I Cambridge lär hon känna Ted Hughes, även han författare i vardande. Allt verkar på ytan perfekt: de gifter sig, reser och arbetar tillsammans, får två barn och slår sig ned på en gård på engelska landsbygden. Men skenet är bedrägligt, äktenskapet ohållbart: Ted har bedragit henne. Sylvia flyttar till London där hon 1963 begår självmord, endast trettio år gammal. Sylvia Plaths dagböcker publicerades i svensk översättning 2003 och återutges nu i Norstedts klassikerserie.

Reconocida por su obra poética, Sylvia Plath fue también una brillante escritora de prosa. Niño de la piedra con delfín forma parte de la colección de cuentos, ensayos y fragmentos de sus diarios, que destacan por su feroz concentración en el arte, la vitalidad de su inteligencia y los anhelos de su imaginación. En estos escritos se aprecia la temprana preocupación de Plath por los problemas derivados de las enfermedades mentales; los complejos procesos de la creatividad y, de manera destacada, una diversidad de temas que tienen la feminidad como eje central.

Previously existing only in the Sylvia Plath archives, a story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life. Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom tells the story of a young woman’s fateful train journey. Lips the color 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 the kingdom of the frozen will,” comes the reply. “There is no going back.” Sylvia Plath’s strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.

“Engaging and revealing, The Letters of Sylvia Plath offers a captivating look into the life and inner thinking of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.” — Paul Alexander, Washington Post The second volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Sylvia Plath, from the early years of her marriage to Ted Hughes to the final days leading to her suicide in 1963, many never before seen. One of the most talented and beloved poets, Sylvia Plath continues to fascinate and inspire the modern literary imagination. The tragedy of her untimely death at age thirty, almost fifty-five years ago, has left much unknown about her creative and personal life. In this remarkable second volume of the iconic poet and writer’s collected letters, the full range of Plath’s ambitions, talents, fears, and perspective is made visible through her own powerful words. As engaging as they are revealing, these remarkable letters cover the years from 1957 to 1963. They detail the last six tumultuous and prolific years of her life, covering her marriage to Ted Hughes, the births of her children Frieda and Nicholas, her early success, including the publication of the classic The Bell Jar, and her ongoing struggle with depression. The first compendium of its kind to include all of Plath’s letters from this period, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 2 offers an intimate portrait of the writing life and mind of one of the most celebrated poets in literary history.

"Crossing the Water, a collection of poems written just prior to those in Ariel, . . . is of immense importance in recording [Plath's] extraordinary development. One senses on every page a voice coming into its own, the chaos of a lifetime at last getting ready to assume its final, triumphant shape." — Kirkus Reviews Sylvia Plath's extraordinary collection pushes the envelope between dark and light, between our deep passions and desires that are often in tension with our duty to family and society. Water becomes a metaphor for the surface veneer that many of us carry, but Plath explores how easily this surface can be shaken and disturbed. This landmark collection from a 20th-century literary icon features: Pivotal Early Work: Experience the extraordinary artistic development in the poems written just before her magnum opus, Ariel, offering a vital glimpse into her evolving genius. Confessional Poetry: A voice coming into its own, exploring the chaos of a lifetime as it prepares to assume its final, triumphant shape. Nature & The Self: Water, stone, and flora become haunting symbols for the fragile surface of the psyche and the deep passions churning just beneath. Feminist Themes: A stark examination of the tensions between desire and the duties of family and society, from a foundational voice in women's literature.

Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote.—Ted Hughes, from the Introduction

“Made up of poems that are so original in their style and so startlingly accomplished in their confessional voice that they helped change the direction of contemporary poetry, Ariel is a masterpiece.” — New York Observer Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to the public, it garnered worldwide acclaim, but it wasn't the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath's original manuscript—including handwritten notes—and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem "Ariel," which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process of a beloved writer. This publication introduces a truer version of Plath's works, and will alter her legacy forever.

Sinds haar zelfverkozen dood in 1963 is er veel geschreven en gezegd over de fascinerende Sylvia Plath. Vooral over Plaths huwelijk met dichter Ted Hughes en over de laatste maanden van haar leven. Dan schrijft ze immers de harde, naakte gedichten die, samengevoegd tot de bundel Ariel, haar naam postuum vestigen. Plaths dagboeken bieden een aangrijpend en intiem beeld van haar korte maar intense leven. Ze tonen de gretige tiener die haar seksualiteit ontdekt en de serieuze studente die, ondergedompeld in een wild liefdesleven, worstelt om de hoogste cijfers te halen. Ze beschrijven een definiërend jaar in Cambridge, waar Plath Ted Hughes ontmoet, en hun huwelijk enkele maanden later. In de jaren vijftig werd een vrouw geacht zich uitsluitend met het huishouden bezig te houden. Plath moet vechten om iets van haar ambities waar te maken. In 1962 loopt het huwelijk op de klippen, en doet de fatale wanhoop haar intrede. Sylvia Plath pleegde in 1963 zelfmoord. Haar gedichten en haar roman The Bell Jar worden nog steeds gretig gelezen.

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 the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There's magic afoot in Mrs Cherry's Kitchen and children will love to find their perfect Nighty-night little / Turn-out-the-light little Bed! in The Bed Book.

A unique and invaluable collection of the young Sylvia Plath’s drawings from important and formative years in her life: 1955-1957 Sylvia Plath: Drawings is a portfolio of pen-and-ink illustrations created during the transformative period spent at Cambridge University, when Plath met and secretly married poet Ted Hughes, and traveled with him to Paris and Spain on their honeymoon, years before she wrote her seminal work, The Bell Jar. Throughout her life, Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration. This collection sheds light on these key years in her life, capturing her exquisite observations of the world around her. It includes Plath’s drawings from England, France, Spain, and New England, featuring such subjects as Parisian rooftops, trees, and churches, as well as a portrait Ted Hughes. Sylvia Plath: Drawings includes letters and diary entries that add depth and context to the great poet’s work, as well as an illuminating introduction by her daughter, Frieda Hughes.

Vor 50 Jahren erschien die amerikanische Erstausgabe der Glasglocke, Sylvia Plaths einzigem Roman – vier Wochen später nahm Plath sich das Leben. Ihr Roman avancierte bald zum Kult, beschrieb er doch wie kein Buch zuvor die Stimmungslage junger Frauen, ihre Zerrissenheit angesichts gesellschaftlicher Anforderungen. »Es war ein verrückter, schwüler Sommer, dieser Sommer, in dem die Rosenbergs auf den elektrischen Stuhl kamen und ich nicht wusste, was ich in New York eigentlich wollte«: Die neunzehnjährige Esther gewinnt eine vierwöchige Hospitanz bei einem Modemagazin in New York, garniert mit Partyeinladungen und Werbegeschenken. Doch Esther, bisher strebsame Studentin, kann sich weder in den Arbeitsalltag so recht einfinden noch die Verlockungen der Stadt genießen. Sie fühlt sich, als lebte sie unter einer Glasglocke, die sie mehr und mehr von allem trennt ...

Sylvia Plath was, for both English and American poetry, one of the defining voices of twentieth-century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. Though she published just one collection in her lifetime, The Colossus, and a novel, The Bell Jar, it was following her death in 1963 that her work began to garner the wider audience that it deserved. The manuscript that she left behind, Ariel, was published in 1965 under the editorship of her former husband, Ted Hughes, as were two later volumes, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees in 1971, which helped to make Sylvia Plath a household name. Hughes's careful curation of Plath's work extended to a Collected Poems and a Selected Poems in the 1980s, which remain in print today and stand testimony to the 'profound respect' that Frieda Hughes said her father had for her mother's work. It was not until the publication of a 'restored' Ariel in 2004 that readers were able to appraise Plath's own selection and arrangement of her work. This edition of the poems, chosen by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, offers a fresh selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry to stand in parallel to the existing editions. Introduced with an inviting preface, the book is essential reading for those new to and already familiar with the work of this most extraordinary poet.

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel , The Colossus , Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and includes many of her most-celebrated works, such as 'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Wuthering Heights'.

'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.' John Carey, Sunday Times

Three classic children's stories, Mrs Cherry's Kitchen, The Bed Book and The It Doesn't Matter Suit, collected together in one volume for the first time.

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.