Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Simply beautiful 😍

Arrived in fantastic condition. Loved the title story, the others were hit or miss. Wouldn't be the first piece of Sylvia Plath works I would recommend to someone, but a great addition to a collection if you're into her other work.

Leggere questo libro mi fa capire che Sylvia avrebbe potuto avere un futuro veramente grandioso davanti a sé. Amo tutto ciò che ha scritto.Consiglio questo libro a chiunque voglia conoscerla meglio.

Sylvia Plath beguiles and reviles doubters with her twirling words and twisting plots. She drives the English language like vintage Porsche at top speed. It is no wonder she shook convention and the artifice of academic and womanly domains of her time. She still cuts like a knife 🔪 and wounds pretense and dogma like a master surgeon. I fell under her spell and wished heartily 💗 for more.The truth is that she cut ✂ her very own self off to the complete detriment of her beautiful and now successful artist/writer daughter Frieda and scientist son Nicholas, who followed her deadly suicidal trail a few years ago.One weeps inside for the insensitive, masculocentric/bully world that drives "civilization" and so grossly misunderstands the needs of women, children, and huMAN himself. I had tenderness for husband/daddy Ted Hughes and felt that he in turn was bullied all of his remaining life for the role he played in this heart tearing famous family saga, which it became. Ted the poet laureate was educated in England, Sylvia in America and she committed suicide in London one cold and snowy Feb. night which savagely underscores our fascination for the macabre in the making of her enduring legend.For a so called "civilized" country, England has perpetrated more losses to the quality of natural life and respect and support of naturally occurring families than all of every poor tribe gone to hell in it's conquering clutches. America being one. Whatever people think about tribal life, people listened to each other, honored the talented, respected differences and eccentricities, shared childcare beautifully and understood that men were men and employed ways of training them into great morality, strength and vigor. The British method of shunning, isolating and judging scorned and poverty stricken women and children chilled Sylvia to the bone and I am still chilled to the bone thatJK Rowling, the current best selling author in the world, and woman, has still had to disguise her gender to prevail.Shame on the march of "PROGRESS" that has now lead to the incredible dehumanization that has now all but swallowed the poetic/sacred voices of all who might have mattered and survived to follow Sylvia's courageous footsteps. 3 cheers to Frieda for enduring, the most deeply grooved requirement to human spiritual existence. Their story makes ours more livable if not any less tragic.H.O. Jones in guise of masculo-dominated internet domain partner's acct.

One of my favourite book of short stories! I have this in paperback which I've had for years but was thrilled to find it's also available on kindle. Highly recommended. One of the few writings of Sylvia Plath that's not poetry (I have all those books too - I'm a fan!!) alongside The Bell Jar. If you have never read Sylvia Plath before then in my opinion this is the best book to begin with.