The Bell Jar in English

Raja Babu
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As part of the conversion of the book to its new digital format, we have made certain minor adjustments in its layout. A Table of Contents has been added for the reader's convenience.

  1. 03/30/2025

    Chapter Twenty

    Chapter Twenty A fresh fall of snow blanketed the asylum grounds—not a Christmas sprinkle, but a man-high January deluge, the sort that snuffs out schools and offices and churches, and leaves, for a day or more, a pure, blank sheet in place of memo pads, date books and calendars.

    15 min

  2. 03/29/2025

    Chapter Nineteen

    Chapter Nineteen 'I'm going to be a psychiatrist.' Joan spoke with her usual breathy enthusiasm. We were drinking apple cider in the Belsize lounge.

    13 min

  3. 03/28/2025

    Chapter Eighteen

    Chapter Eighteen 'Esther.' I woke out of a deep, drenched sleep, and the first thing I saw was Doctor Nolan's face swimming in front of me and saying, 'Esther, Esther.'

    16 min

  4. 03/27/2025

    Chapter Seventeen

    Chapter Seventeen 'You're a lucky girl today.' The young nurse cleared my breakfast tray away and left me wrapped in my white blanket like a passenger taking the sea air on the deck of a ship.

    11 min

  5. 03/26/2025

    Chapter Sixteen

    Chapter Sixteen Joan's room, with its closet and bureau and table and chair and white blanket with the big blue C on it, was a mirror image of my own.

    10 min

  6. 03/25/2025

    Chapter Fifteen

    Chapter Fifteen Philomena Guinea's black Cadillac eased through the tight, five o'clock traffic like a ceremonial car.

    15 min

  7. 03/24/2025

    Chapter Fourteen

    Chapter Fourteen It was completely dark. I felt the darkness, but nothing else, and my head rose, feeling it, like the head of a worm. Someone was moaning. Then a great, hard weight smashed against my cheek like a stone wall and the moaning stopped.

    12 min

  8. 03/22/2025

    Chapter Twelve

    Chapter Twelve Doctor Gordon's private hospital crowned a grassy rise at the end of a long, secluded drive that had been whitened with broken quahog shells.

    13 min
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As part of the conversion of the book to its new digital format, we have made certain minor adjustments in its layout. A Table of Contents has been added for the reader's convenience.

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