The Bell Jar in English
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Chapter Twenty
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ou...
Chapter Nineteen
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Chapter Eighteen
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 say...
Chapter Seventeen
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 passen...
Chapter Sixteen
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Chapter Fifteen
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter Fifteen Philomena Guinea's black Cadillac eased through the tight, five o'clock traffic like a ceremonial car.
Chapter Fourteen
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Chapter Twelve
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Chapter Eleven
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter Eleven Doctor Gordon's waiting-room was hushed and beige. The walls were beige, and the carpets were beige, and the upholstered chairs and ...
Chapter Nine
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter Nine 'I'm so glad they're going to die.' Hilda arched her cat-limbs in a yawn, buried her head in her arms on the conference table and went...
Chapter Eight
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter Eight Mr Willard drove me up to the Adirondacks. It was the day after Christmas and a grey sky bellied over us, fat with snow.
Chapter Seven
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter Seven Of course, Constantin was much too short, but in his own way he was handsome, with light brown hair and dark blue eyes and a lively, ...
Chapter Six
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter Six I had kept begging Buddy to show me some really interesting hospital sights, so one Friday I cut all my classes and came down for a lon...
Chapter Five
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter Five At seven the next morning the telephone rang. Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep.
Chapter Four
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter Four I don't know just why my successful evasion of chemistry should have floated into my mind there in Jay Cee's office.
Chapter Three
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter Three Arrayed on the Ladies' Day banquet table were yellow- green avocado pear halves stuffed with crabmeat and mayonnaise, and platters of...
Chapter Two
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter Two I wouldn't have missed Lenny's place for anything. It was built exactly like the inside of a ranch, only in the middle of a New York ap...
Chapter One
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter One It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.