Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts, (Paperback)

from AliceAnna

I'm not sure what the point was in including excerpts from her journals, particularly her Cambridge Notes. The essays and stories easily stand on their own. The stories are a mixed bag from the hopeful romantic "Day of Success" to the dark, disturbing title story "Sunday at the Mintons'" seemed t...

from SadieBabie

I'm not a poetry reader, so I've never really read Plath's poems. But like any self-respecting depressed female teenager I read her memoir The Bell Jar. This collection doesn't contain any of her poetry either, its short stories & articles of varying strengths, along with notebook entries. Its in...

from Hollymartins

Johnny Panic & the Bible of Dreams Johnny Panic is a short story written by Plath in 1958, five years before the Bell Jar. An unnamed (A) young woman works as a Psychoanalyst's secretary. Whilst taking down the patient's day to day hang-ups and worries - 'trouble with mother, trouble with father,...

from sweetiegherkin

Although she is perhaps best known as a poet, Ted Hughes notes in the introduction to this book that Sylvia Plath once wrote, "For me, poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose." This book contains short stories, journalist essays, and "diary entries" (actually more like writing exe...

from MSarki

I am not really trusting much of anything Ted Hughes edited. Will narrow my search from here on with unabridged, unedited works of Sylvia Plath. I do think she was not especially gifted in the prose department. Perhaps too mediated by her desire to be a big-time writer published in the popular ma...