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Sylvia Plath

Biography

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections THE COLOSSUS, CROSSING THE WATER, WINTER TREES, ARIEL and COLLECTED POEMS, which won the Pulitzer Prize. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of ARIELwas published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.

Sylvia Plath

Books by Sylvia Plath

Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story
by Sylvia Plath - Fiction

Never before published, this newly discovered 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 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.”

The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath - Fiction
Ariel
by Sylvia Plath