Sylvia Plath

The stars gave light enough for me to discern the figure as that of a man, but I could scarcely discover more. “Dark night, this,” I said. “Darker below,” he muttered, as though to himself; “darker, darker, darker.”Yorkshire: a land entwined with a distinctive tradition of uncanny literature and folklore, home to twilit towns thronging with restless ghosts, woods alive with the whispers of fairies and vast moorlands stalked by boggarts and barghests after dark. Exploring Yorkshire’s position as a heartland of British supernatural fiction, the stories and poems gathered here trace its weird literary heritage from medieval tales of shapeshifting spirits to the Gothic worlds of the Brontë sisters, and from wartime hauntings to modern folk horror. Including local legends from rare sources and unsettling stories from Arthur Machen, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Andrew Michael Hurley and many more, this collection offers glimpses of a stranger England hidden among the shadows of the dales.

The complete edition of Sylvia Plath's prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material, edited by Peter K. Steinberg.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(1977), this volume draws together all of Sylvia Plath's shorter prose, much of which is previously uncollected and unpublished.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. 'To see so much of [Plath's] surviving fiction and journalism, so many of her essays and reviews, finally published under one cover is to be surprised all over again by the breadth of her vision, ambition and talent . . . A major literary event and an invaluable scholarly resource.' Heather Clark, TLSFrom 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

'When I think of Sylvia Plath, I am in awe of her intelligence, her language, her wit, her consonantal music - her sheer gift, and what must have been her drive, as its guardian, possessor, possessee, to realise it.' Sharon OldsThe Poems of Sylvia Plath is a landmark publication: the definitive edition of the poet's work for scholars, students and general readers. 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 edition. The book is in two parts: the first contains the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and upon which her reputation is founded, and the second includes those poems written in childhood and through her student years. In both sections, the editors have dated, corrected and arranged each poem chronologically, drawing on manuscripts, typescripts and related archival material. Critical notes document and cast new light on Plath's extraordinary evolution as a poet, from her childhood compositions, through the early blossoming of her talent and ambition, and into the molten core that was to shape the poems of her last few years, securing her place in literary history.

Audiokniha Pod skleněným zvonem, kterou napsala Sylvia Plath. Vstupte do světa vyprávění, které recenzenti srovnávají s Jackem Kerouackem a J. D. Salingerem. Nechte se unášet plastickým líčením Ameriky padesátých let, autorčinými popisy míst, postav a nálad, které nesou autobiografické prvky.

It is sixty years since Ariel was first published. This heritage edition restores Berthold Wolpe’s iconic jacket and reproduces the original distinctive typesetting in celebration of the enduring importance of a collection that contains many of Sylvia Plath’s best-known poems.Written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, the poems are as expressive of joy as they are of desolation. The remarkable combination of artistry and intensity that was recognised on this volume’s first publication established Plath as one of the most original and gifted poets of the twentieth century.‘If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded. . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity. . . the book is a major literary event.’ A. Alvarez, Observer

„Furcsa, fülledt nyár volt, azon a nyáron ültették villamosszékbe Rosenbergéket, és én nem tudtam, mit keresek New Yorkban.”Egy idegösszeomlás története kezdődik ezekkel a szavakkal. A tizenkilenc éves Esther Greenwoodnak Amerika tálcán kínálja a karriert: felveszik ösztöndíjjal a legjobb iskolába, majd tizenkettedmagával megnyeri egy divatlap pályázatát, egy hónapra New Yorkba kerül, fogadások, díszebédek, hírességek forgatagába. Csakhogy ő valami többet és tisztábbat vár a társadalomtól, mint az őtőle, és ezért nem tud beilleszkedni a nagy gépezetbe. „Nagyon-nagyon csendesnek és üresnek éreztem magam, akár egy tornádó magja, ahogy csak sodródik kábultan a körülötte tomboló pokoli zűrzavar legközepén.” A történet ennek a baljós hasonlatnak a kibontakozása, a betegség első tüneteitől a közönyös pszichiáter kontárul alkalmazott elektrosokk-terápiáján át a hajszál híján sikeres öngyilkosságig. Végül a gyógyulás tétova stációi következnek, az életbe visszavezető út lehetőségét sejtetve – ami a valóságban tragikusan ideiglenesnek bizonyult.Mert Az üvegbura önéletrajzi mű: az újabb angol-amerikai líra talán legeredetibb tehetségének egyetlen nagyobb szabású prózai alkotása. Megjelenésének évében Sylvia Plath öngyilkos lett.„- De mi az a Kilencedik királyság?– Az a tagadás királysága, a fagyott akaraté. Ha odaér a Kilencedik királyságba, nincs visszatérés.”Homályos, szimbolikus, több megfejtést rejtő mese a Mary Ventura és a Kilencedik királyság rövidke története.