The Resource Mary Ventura and the ninth kingdom, Sylvia Plath
Mary Ventura and the ninth kingdom, Sylvia Plath
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The item Mary Ventura and the ninth kingdom, Sylvia Plath represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It is the kingdom of the frozen will,' comes the reply. 'There is no going back. Sylvia Plath's strange, dark tale of independence over infanticide, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion. There is good reason to suppose that Plath would have wanted this work of fiction printed: she submitted it to Mademoiselle magazine in 1953, although it was rejected. The prose is not as radiant as in her 1963 novel, The Bell Jar, published 11 years later, but there is still plenty to admire: a masterly ratcheting up of tension over 40 pages; short, simple sentences that slip between the ribs. As the heroine, Mary, gradually realises that the destination the train is bound for (the Dantean 'ninth kingdom') is probably not somewhere she'd like to end up, she shrugs off her wearying passivity and takes action
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Mary Ventura and the ninth kingdom
- Title
- Mary Ventura and the ninth kingdom
- Statement of responsibility
- Sylvia Plath
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It is the kingdom of the frozen will,' comes the reply. 'There is no going back. Sylvia Plath's strange, dark tale of independence over infanticide, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion. There is good reason to suppose that Plath would have wanted this work of fiction printed: she submitted it to Mademoiselle magazine in 1953, although it was rejected. The prose is not as radiant as in her 1963 novel, The Bell Jar, published 11 years later, but there is still plenty to admire: a masterly ratcheting up of tension over 40 pages; short, simple sentences that slip between the ribs. As the heroine, Mary, gradually realises that the destination the train is bound for (the Dantean 'ninth kingdom') is probably not somewhere she'd like to end up, she shrugs off her wearying passivity and takes action
- Cataloging source
- UKMGB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Plath, Sylvia
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Faber stories
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Railroad travel
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
- Label
- Mary Ventura and the ninth kingdom, Sylvia Plath
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065145144
- Dimensions
- 16 cm.
- Extent
- vi, 40 pages
- Isbn
- 9780571351732
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1079208563
- Label
- Mary Ventura and the ninth kingdom, Sylvia Plath
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065145144
- Dimensions
- 16 cm.
- Extent
- vi, 40 pages
- Isbn
- 9780571351732
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1079208563
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