Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
Sylvia Plath
336 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0060955295
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Language: English
Publish: 951897600000
20th CenturyAmericanClassicsEssaysFeminismFictionLiteraturePoetryShort StoriesThe United States Of America
“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.”– Sylvia Plath, from “Notebooks, February 1956″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.