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Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (Illustrated Edition) together with an enamel pin badge, using artwork from the book’s design. Exclusive to Faber. RRP value: £22.99.
This hardback edition of The Bell Jar, illustrated with Beya Rebaï’s beautifully atmospheric artwork, comes with an accompanying eco-metal pin badge, using Rebaï’s drawings of figs from the book’s endpapers.
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Sylvia Plath (1932–63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from…
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