普利策文学奖得主普拉斯精神历程的自白
全优女孩埃斯特成为某时尚杂志征文比赛的获奖者，孰知这是她噩梦的开始……
人们拒绝认真对待一个女人颤栗的情感，指望通过电休克疗法治愈心灵的绝望。
事实上，她已经令人恐惧地滑向疯狂的深渊。
《钟形罩》出版三周后，三十岁的西尔维娅•普拉斯在伦敦寓所开煤气自杀。

<BLOCKQUOTE>"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine."</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV ALIGN=RIGHT>-- Sylvia Plath, from Notebooks, February 1956</DIV>
Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imaginaton. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. Jonny Panic and the Bible of Dreams truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.</p>