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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780060133771ISBN:0060133775
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Lot of chipping and short tears to DJ. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade; General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Date Published: 2/2/2000
ISBN-13:9780060955298ISBN:0060955295
Description: Fair. 0060955295 Severely crused &mangled. If you just need a refreence this is it Not pretty but its cheap In-Stock NOW FAST Secure Packaging & Delivery. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Date Published: 2/2/2000
ISBN-13:9780060955298ISBN:0060955295
Description: Fine. 0060955295 NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black line on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Description: Harper & Row, c1979, ; First edition, hardcover, small b/w page decorations, pages bright, top edge lightly foxed, small hole in front inside hinge exposing a small bit of cloth, else tight, GOOD+. In a GOOD dustjacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. Still, A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1983-10
ISBN-13:9780060133771ISBN:0060133775
Description: Very Good. First printing. dj price clipped. gift inscription on first page, otherwise very clean and solid edition with no markings. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Date Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN-13:9780061549472ISBN:0061549479
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780061549472. read more
Edition: First Edition-First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780060133771ISBN:0060133775
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. read more
"Somewhat conflicted about this collection, only because had she not died and become a major author posthumously, these would have for sure been kept locked away somewhere or tossed out. However, being the fascinated-by-Sylvia-Plath poser that I am, I just loved seeing how her journal entries just writing very descriptively about the day or someone's home or a person she ran into, translates into fodder for a story. The creative process is so interesting, in part because I feel like I don't have it :/ But my favorite story is the title story, "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams". What a great title, first of all! And I think stories coming from personal experience in dark, uncomfortable places seem to make the best ones, or at least, give the best logs for that creative fire to burn burn burn.
Also, Margaret Atwood does a follow up essay about the collection in the end (eek!! I LOVE her!) and says what I think, almost to a 'T'."
"This book is definitely not a staple of the Plathean canon. It's worth a read if you're interested in Plath herself and want to devour everything she's ever written but look elsewhere in her opus for good storytelling and breathtaking writing. The majority of the stories are lacklustre, decidedly average and sort of just dwindle away to nothing. To be fair, this collection was published posthumously in the 1970s, compiled by her husband, and it contains stories that Plath herself had rejected, presumably never intending for publication (although equally, it does contain a fair number that had been published in magazines during her lifetime). I think therefore, it would be unreasonable to be too scathing. There are in fact a couple of 'nice' pieces -- the titular story, That Widow Mangada (which was somehow delightfully creepy), America! America!, Sunday at the Mintons, Above the Oxbow (the female character in which reminded me of Salinger's Franny Glass) and The Daughters of Blossom Street but really none of them were particularly noteworthy. Johnny Panic certainly does not adequately reflect the brilliance of the writer of The Bell Jar and poems such as Daddy, Lady Lazarus and Fever 103, something which Ted Hughes does concede in his introduction. But, it is still vaguely interesting nonetheless to read Sylvia's attempts at prose, even if the results are not so great."
"I'm the biggest Sylvia Plath fan and this book of her short stories is excellent. Each one draws from her life experiences but it's Sylvia's imagination and engaging writing style that give them a pulse.
The title story, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, is a particularly good one that you won't forget in a hurry."
"I just love Sylvia! It's awesome to see her early short stories, because you can really see how she developed as a writer. Oh, those turns of phrase! Oh Sylvia."
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