Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath

7 best books like Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath (Anne Stevenson): Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Collected Poems, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV, Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness, At Eighty-Two: A Journal, The Testament of Mary

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Author	Annie Dillard
ISBN	0072434171

An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...

The Collected Poems

Author	Sylvia Plath
ISBN	0808595040

The aim of the present complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath's poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to...

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Author	Janet Malcolm
ISBN	0679751408

It's true, every time I think about this book I tremble in awe and reverence. It's like major parts of the whole thing about how human beings are human are here in its little pages. All that who are you really and anyway who is the I asking this question and what do these marks signify on these pages which apparently...

The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV

Author	W.H. Lewis
ISBN	0881339210

Pleasures and palaces are, of course, an enormously entertaining part of this vivid account of France under Louis XIV. More important is the author's exploration of the political, economic, social and artistic forces that developed during the long reign of the Sun-King. It was an age of contradictions...

Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness

Author	Edward Butscher
ISBN	0971059829

I was really looking forward to reading this book, and I did enjoy reading about the life of Sylvia Plath. However. The tone in Butscher's writing upset me quite a bit. He spends much of the book analyzing Sylvia's poetry. Her early poetry, he keeps damning as unsophisticated and not noteworthy. She was...

At Eighty-Two: A Journal

Author

May Sarton

Sarton’s own title for her last journal was Kairos: “a unique time in a person’s life; an opportunity for change.” It chronicles roughly 13 months, from July 1993 to August 1994; Sarton died in July 1995 of a recurrence of breast cancer. After 15 years in the small town of Nelson, New Hampshire,...

The Testament of Mary

Author	Colm Tóibín
ISBN	1451688385

Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity.

In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years...