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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.
© 2019 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780062940865
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 22 januari 2019
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Korte verhalen
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.
© 2019 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780062940865
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 22 januari 2019
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Victoria
16 dec 2023
I’d love to know what’s going on in the Ninth Kingdom.
T
1 okt 2022
Juvenile but very Sylvia Plath
Stevie
27 nov 2023
Een kort verhaal over een jonge vrouw die tijdens een treinreis ontdekt dat ze haar eigen pad kan kiezen. Een verhaal uit een ander tijdperk, maar nog even relevant in deze wereld waarbij we soms de controle lijken te verliezen als individu.
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