{"title":"The Bell Jar","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-bell-jar-by-sylvia-plath-numbered-edition","title":"The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - Numbered Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003ePRE-ORDER PRICE: $650\u003cbr\u003ePUBLICATION PRICE: $695\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA searing portrait of a young woman's struggle for identity and of the world that closes around her, \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e is Sylvia Plath's only novel, and one of the most widely read books in American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story chronicles the slow unraveling of Esther Greenwood, a brilliant 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. After earning a coveted summer position at a prestigious New York City magazine, Esther finds herself struggling with the looming expectations of marriage, motherhood, and giving up on her dreams to achieve them. As she grows increasingly disillusioned with the life laid out for her, her mental health deteriorates, ultimately leading to hospitalization and psychiatric treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in the United Kingdom under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963, \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e is considered to be in part autobiographical, mirroring the author's own descent into mental illness. Plath died by suicide a month after the novel's UK publication. Scholars suggest the author began writing the novel in the spring of 1961 after publishing her first collection of poetry, and may have finished in August of the same year, though subsequent changes were made throughout the editing process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ls-ps2\"\u003ePlath had applied for the Eugene F. Saxton Fellowship, affiliated with publisher Harper \u0026amp; Row, and was awarded the grant late in 1961. It required her to submit the finished manuscript to the Saxton committee; the editors who read it found the novel \"disappointing, juvenile and overwrought,\" and the book was turned down. Early working titles included \u003cem\u003eDiary of a Suicide\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Girl in the Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e. When it was published in the United States eight years later, \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e, as it had come to be known, became an instant success. While praised by critics and peers alike, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e perhaps said it best in their review: \"Esther Greenwood's account of her year in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing… not a pot-boiler, nor a series of ungrateful caricatures; it is literature.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply intimate and universally resonant, \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of the twentieth century’s most powerful literary achievements—a novel whose honesty, beauty, and emotional force continue to captivate readers more than sixty years after its publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe limited edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e by Sylvia Plath is presented in two states: Numbered Edition, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.suntup.press\/products\/the-bell-jar-by-sylvia-plath-lettered-edition\"\u003eLettered Edition\u003c\/a\u003e and Designer's Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNUMBERED EDITION\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5½\" x 8¼\" trim size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e304 pages.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLimited to 250 copies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned by Peter K. Steinberg, Harriet Lee-Merrion, and Sonja Ahlers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMillimeter-style binding, fully bound in cloth with printed-paper sides carrying a different illustration by the artist front and back; cloth left exposed along the fore edge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetterpress-printed paper label on the spine of the book and clamshell.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe title page and chapter openings are printed in a second color, requiring an additional pass through the press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted letterpress on Mohawk Via Laid.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoused in a clamshell enclosure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEndsheets are Takeo Tant Select, a Japanese paper with a subtle double-sided emboss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandmade cloth endbands.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes a new afterword by Peter K. 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