The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath: The Book That Lets You Read a Mind
Some books are written to tell you what happened. Some are written to explain a life. And then there are books like The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath —books that allow you to sit quietly beside a person's thoughts as they happen. You don't simply meet Sylvia Plath through these pages. You encounter her ambitions, contradictions, observations, relationships, creative struggles and restless desire to experience life completely. That is what makes this book so different from an ordinary novel, biography or collection of essays. What Makes This Book Different From Regular Reading? A conventional book usually has structure. There is a beginning, a progression and some kind of resolution. A journal does not promise any of that. Plath's journals move between everyday observations, writing ambitions, relationships, books, travel, identity, love, loneliness, cr...