PLATH SYLVIA

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ΠΑΠΑΡΟΥΝΕΣ ΤΟΝ ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟ Ακόμα και τα ηλιοφώτιστα σύννεφα αυτό το πρωινό δεν καταφέρνουν να φτιάξουν τέτοιες φούστες. Ούτε και η γυναίκα στο ασθενοφόρο Παρ' όλο που η κόκκινη καρδιά της ανθίζει μέσ' από το παλτό της τόσο εκθαμβωτικά - Ένα δώρο, ένα δώρο αγάπης Απόλυτα απροσδόκητο - Από έναν ουρανό Που χλομά και φλογισμένα Πυροδοτεί το μονοξείδιο του άνθρακα, από μάτια Προσηλωμένα και βαθύσκιωτα κάτω από στρογγυλά καπέλα. Ω Θεέ μου, τι είμαι εγώ Για να ανοίξουν κραυγάζοντας αυτά τα αργοπορημένα στόματα Μέσα σε ένα δάσος από πάγο, σε μια ...
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(P/B) ARIEL
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE BELL JAR
The first and only novel by Sylvia Plath, originally published in 1963. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. Instead she finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women’s aspirations seriously. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) CROSSING THE WATER
Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most celebrated poems - 'Childless Woman', 'Mirror', 'Insomniac' - while discovering those still overlooked, including her radio play Three Women. These two extraordinary volumes find their place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a sing...
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(P/B) THE JOURNALS OF SYLVIA PLATH
The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression - are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel and The Colossus. (From the publisher...
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(P/B) THE BELL JAR
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the p...
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(P/B) LETTERS OF SYLVIA PLATH (VOLUME I)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence, most of which has never before been published and is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. Refreshingly candid and offering intimate details of her personal life, Plath is playful, too, entertaining a wide range of addressees, ...
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ΤΟ ΚΟΣΤΟΥΜΙ ΔΕ ΜΕ ΜΕΛΕΙ
«Τι παράξενο κοστούμι!» είπε ο μπαμπάς Νιξ. «Ποτέ μου δεν έχω ξαναδεί κάτι παρόμοιο!» Τρεις ιστορίες γραμμένες από τη Σύλβια Πλαθ για τα παιδιά της, ιστορίες που σφύζουν από ενέργεια και ενθουσιασμό και ταξιδεύουν αυτούσιες στον χρόνο. Περιλαμβάνονται: «Το κοστούμι-δε-με-μέλει», «Η κουζίνα της κυρίας Κερασάκη», «Το Βιβλίο Κρεβάτι». (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου) «Απίστευτες και απολαυστικές». (Publishers Weekly)...
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(P/B) JOHNNY PANIC AND THE BIBLE OF DREAMS
From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional storywriter. When the first edition of Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams appeared, Margaret Walters said of it in the Guardian, 'the book does offer . . . new insight into her development as a writer, suggesting how even her mistakes and dead ends contributed to the formation of an original and pathfinding talent'. This s...
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(P/B) THE COLOSSUS
Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published during her lifetime. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) MARY VENTURA AND THE NINTH KINGDOM
Lips the colour 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 independence over infanticide, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion. (From the publ...
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(P/B) SYLVIA PLATH POEMS CHOSEN BY CAROL ANN DUFFY
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of the twentieth century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. The poems in this fresh and inviting edition were chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. In my selection, which is roughly chronological to shadow her progress, I have tried to walk through the landscape of Sylvia Plath's poetry as though for the first time, fifty years older than I was when she died. In doing so I have experienced afresh the almost physical excitement I felt ...
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(P/B) ARIEL
Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber. Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests. (From the publisher) 'Since she died my mother has been dissected, analysed, reinterpreted, reinven...
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(P/B) ARIEL
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE BELL JAR
I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only ...
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(P/B) COLLECTED POEMS
This volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath's juvenilia. 'For me, the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication, eighteen years after her death, of Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, confirming her as one of the most powerful and lavishly gifted poets of our time.' A. Alvarez in the Observer. Thi...
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(H/B) ARIEL
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SELECTED POEMS
When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published posthumously, A. Alvarez in the Observer wrote: 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hard-minded ... They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity ... the book is a major literary event'. This selection made by Ted Hughes from all her work shows that Sylvia Plath is clearly a major poet of the twentieth century. (From the publisher)...
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Ο ΓΥΑΛΙΝΟΣ ΚΩΔΩΝ
"Ήταν ένα περίεργο, αποπνικτικό καλοκαίρι, το καλοκαίρι που οι Ρόζενμπεργκ οδηγήθηκαν στην ηλεκτρική καρέκλα κι εγώ ούτε που ήξερα τι γύρευα στη Νέα Υόρκη. Τα χάνω με τις εκτελέσεις. Η ιδέα της θανάτωσης με ηλεκτροπληξία με αρρωσταίνει κι ήταν το μόνο πράγμα για το οποίο έγραφαν οι εφημερίδες - οι επικεφαλίδες με κοιτούσαν επίμονα σαν γουρλωμένα μάτια στη γωνιά κάθε δρόμου και στις μουχλιασμένες εξόδους του μετρό που μύριζαν φιστίκια. Δεν είχε καμία σχέση με μένα, μα δεν μπορούσα να σταματήσω να αναρωτιέμαι πώς θα ήταν να καίγεσαι ζωντανός...
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ΑΡΙΕΛ, Η ΑΠΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΗΜΕΝΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ
Η Σύλβια Πλαθ έγινε διάσημη μετά το θάνατό της, όταν στα μέσα του 1960 εκδόθηκε η ποιητική της συλλογή "Άριελ". Οι αναγνώστες ίσως εκπλαγούν μαθαίνοντας ότι το χειρόγραφο βιβλίο που άφησε πίσω της η Σύλβια Πλαθ όταν πέθανε το 1963 είναι διαφορετικό από τον τόμο με τα δημοσιευμένα ποιήματα που κέρδισε την παγκόσμια αναγνώριση. Η έκδοση αυτή, η οποία αποτελεί πιστό αντίγραφο του χειρογράφου της, αποκαθιστά για πρώτη φορά την επιλογή και τη διευθέτηση των ποιημάτων όπως είχε γίνει από την ίδια την Πλαθ πριν το θάνατό της. Μαζί με το αντίγραφο...
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