American humor vs The Bell Jar: Which Should You Read?

American humor Constance Rourke · 1899 ★★★★☆ 3.6 324 pages · ≈ 6 h 00 m · Demanding

"Stepping out of the darkness, the American emerges upon the stage of history as a new character, as puzzling to himself as to others. American Humor, Constance Rourke's pioneering "study of the national character,"…

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath · 1948 ★★★★☆ 4.4 272 pages · ≈ 5 h 02 m · Demanding

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional record of a successful and talented young woman's descent into madness.