Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom
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Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom

A Story

Previously existing only in the Sylvia Plath archives, a story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life.

Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952,Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdomtells the story of a young woman’s fateful train journey.

Lips the color 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 female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.

Détails du livre

Éditeur
Harper Perennial
Publication year
2019
Collection
Langue
English
ISBN
9780062940841
LAN
20ccc8a7d5f8

Formats

Paperback ePub