Living With It vs The Bell Jar: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Living With It Living With It Bev Aisbett · 1995 160 pages · ≈ 2 h 58 m · Moderate

The classic guide for panic attack sufferers - now fully revised and updated. Panic attacks - approximately 5% of the population will experience them at some time or another. The dread of having an attack - they…

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Cover of The Bell Jar 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.

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Google Books — 4.5 (2)
Apple Books — 4.5 (555)

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Living With ItThe Bell Jar
Ratings — 555
Editions 4 177
Film adaptations — 1
Wikipedia attention — 63950
Pages 160 272

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