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The bell jar / Sylvia Plath

 
dc.contributor Smith, John B. Department of Computer Science Chapel Hill College Chapel Hill
dc.contributor.author Plath, Sylvia
dc.coverage.placeName New York
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-19T14:51:22Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-19T14:51:22Z
dc.date.created 1971
dc.date.issued 1992-03-12
dc.identifier ota:1634
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1634
dc.description.abstract Unknown markup version of this text (1634) available at 0110
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dc.subject.lcsh English literature -- 20th century
dc.subject.other Novels
dc.title The bell jar / Sylvia Plath
dc.type Text
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<dTitle>The Bell Jar
<byLine>by
<dAuthor>Plath, Sylvia </dAuthor></byLine>
<dImprint>New York: Harper and Row, 1971 1961-1962<dImprint>
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<p>IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted 
the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing 
in New York. I'm stupid about executions. The idea of being 
electrocuted makes me sick, and that's all there was to read 
about in the papers -- goggle-eyed headlines staring up at 
me on every street corner and at the fusty, peanut-smelling 
mouth of every subway. It had nothing to do with me, but 
I couldn't help wondering what it would be like, being 
burned alive all along your nerves. 
<p>I thought it must be the worst thing in the world. 
<p>New York was bad enough. By nine in the morning the 
fake, country-wet freshness that somehow seeped in overnight 
evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream. Mirage-gray 
at the bottom of their granite  canyons, the hot streets 
wavere . . .
										

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