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Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom: A Story

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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 short story by literary legend Sylvia Plath is a remarkable allegorical tale about a young woman's rebellion against convention and the 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 is a compelling coming of age story about 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."

This strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, a powerful work of psychological fiction written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.

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  • Publication Date: January 22, 2019
  • Text-to-Speech: Disabled
  • Lending: Disabled
  • Print Length: 46 Pages
  • File Size: 33 KB

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