The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche...

Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated...

"En esta humorística y aguda novela sobre las complejidades del lenguaje y aprender sobre nuevas culturas, Nancy, una estudiante universitaria americana, viaja a Sevilla para investigar para su tesis, la cual trata sobre la cultura gitana. Decidida a asimilarse a su nuevo entorno, Nancy aprende que hay muchos obstáculos lingüísticos y culturales a los que se deberá sobreponer. El lector disfrutará mientras Nancy lidia con una lengua y unas costumbres...