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Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story
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Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story Paperback - 2019

by Sylvia Plath


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"[Plath's] story is stirring, in sneaky, unexpected ways. . . . Look carefully and there's a new angle here -- on how, and why, we read Plath today."-- Parul Sehgal, New York Times

Never before published, this newly discovered 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 Kingdom tells 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.

From the rear cover

A newly discovered, never-before-seen story by Sylvia Plath.

Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom tells 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" 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.

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  • Title Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story
  • Author Sylvia Plath
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial
  • Date 2019-01-22
  • ISBN 9780062940834 / 006294083X
  • Weight 0.15 lbs (0.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.3 x 4.9 x 0.5 in (18.54 x 12.45 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Women, Railroad travel
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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