{"title":"Sylvia Plath","description":"\u003cp\u003eEncounter one of the most powerful and enduring voices in twentieth-century literature with \u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Plath\u003c\/strong\u003e (1932–1963), the American poet and novelist whose work burns with a fierce, confessional intensity that has never been equalled. Plath transformed the raw material of her own psychological experience — depression, ambition, identity, womanhood, and the desperate desire to create — into poetry and prose of extraordinary beauty and precision. Her semi-autobiographical novel \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e (1963), published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas just weeks before her death, is a landmark of twentieth-century fiction — a searing, darkly funny account of a young woman’s mental breakdown that has never gone out of print. Her poetry collection \u003cem\u003eAriel\u003c\/em\u003e (1965), published posthumously, is one of the most celebrated and influential poetry collections in the English language. Her \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982. Essential, unforgettable, and utterly alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-bell-jar","title":"The Bell Jar","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Remember, if you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” A profoundly compelling semi-autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath that delves into the complex world of mental health and the societal pressures faced by women in the 1950s, The Bell Jar centers around Esther Greenwood, a young woman who is both talented and successful but finds herself spiraling into a deep depression as she struggles to find her identity in a world that often seems suffocating and conformist. The novel is celebrated for its sharp insight into the issues of mental illness, particularly in how it’s perceived and treated. Plath’s portrayal of Esther’s descent into mental illness is both harrowing and deeply personal, reflecting Plath’s own experiences. The title is a metaphor for Esther’s suffocation and entrapment, mirroring her feelings of being trapped under a bell jar, cut off from the world, and unable to breathe. It’s a timeless story that resonates with themes of self-discovery, resilience, and personal freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46035942670393,"sku":"9789392210761","price":266.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/81b7uK_OhDL._SL1500_655f1baa-bd1c-407c-9b27-86b1cba7d945.jpg?v=1782814765"},{"product_id":"the-journals-of-sylvia-plath","title":"Journals of Sylvia Plath","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.' 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She now knew that life would be a seesaw of good and bad days, and the bell jar could ring either with sadness or elation, she just needed to hear it jingle and practice what she learnt.The Bell Jar is an intimate, and uplifting narrative written with the expert stroke of the finest writers of the century; meant to make the reader feel supported and hopeful in their journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46039714955321,"sku":"9789815204414","price":179.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/91LrjAMsqJL._SL1500_6a717841-ae51-4d93-8063-20e86ec06472.jpg?v=1782833008"},{"product_id":"ariel","title":"Ariel","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I rise with my red hair \/ And I eat men like air.'It is sixty years since Ariel was first published. The poems were written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before Sylvia Plath's death in 1963, and they went on to establish her reputation as one of the most original and gifted poets of the twentieth century.The critic Al Alvarez, reviewing the collection 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, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.'The poet Emily Berry offers an introduction that gives readers, old and new, a way into the poems, and demonstrates Plath's profound and enduring influence down the generations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46039718101049,"sku":"9780571394777","price":765.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/71VKT6ui66L._SL1500.jpg?v=1782833085"},{"product_id":"penguin-select-classics-12","title":"Penguin Select Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”Esther Greenwood is a beautiful and immensely talented young lady who dreamt of being a great writer. 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She now knew that life would be a seesaw of good and bad days, and the bell jar could ring either with sadness or elation, she just needed to hear it jingle and practice what she learnt.The Bell Jar is an intimate, and uplifting narrative written with the expert stroke of the finest writers of the century; meant to make the reader feel supported and hopeful in their journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":46039787896889,"sku":"9789815202199","price":359.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/51_kwoaeUFL._SL1500_8908e66a-ebc0-4f37-aa09-b9353b9a7851.jpg?v=1782834215"},{"product_id":"the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath","title":"The unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst U.S. PublicationA major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time.Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. 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